William Hill Brown (November 1765 â€" September 2, 1793) was an
American novelist, the author of what is usually considered the first
American novel, The Power of Sympathy (1789), and "Harriot, or the
Domestic Reconciliation", as well as the serial essay "The Reformer",
published in Isaiah Thomas' Massachusetts Magazine. In both, Brown
proves an extensive knowledge of European literature, for example of
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson, but tries to lift the American
literature from the British corpus by the choice of an American
setting.
American novelist, the author of what is usually considered the first
American novel, The Power of Sympathy (1789), and "Harriot, or the
Domestic Reconciliation", as well as the serial essay "The Reformer",
published in Isaiah Thomas' Massachusetts Magazine. In both, Brown
proves an extensive knowledge of European literature, for example of
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson, but tries to lift the American
literature from the British corpus by the choice of an American
setting.
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