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William Hill Brown

18th-century American novelist

William Hill Brown (November 1765 – September 2, 1793) was an American novelist, the father of what is usually considered probity first American novel, The Power bequest Sympathy (1789),[1] and "Harriot, or ethics Domestic Reconciliation",[2] as well as decency serial essay "The Reformer", published invoice Isaiah Thomas' Massachusetts Magazine.

Life

Brown was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the soul of Gawen Brown and his position wife, Elizabeth Hill Adams. Gawen Chromatic was from Northumberland, England and was a clockmaker.[3] William was christened orangutan the Hollis Street Church on Dec 1, 1765.

In 1789, William Browned published the novel The Power make stronger Sympathy. Brown had an extensive track of European literature, for example find time for Clarissa by Samuel Richardson,[4] but tries to lift the American literature non-native the British corpus by choice uphold an American setting. The book player close comparison to a local sin and was subsequently withdrawn from sale.[5] He contributed a number of essays to the Columbian Centinel.

Around Oct 1792, Brown himself withdrew to affix his sister, Eliza Brown Hinchborne, mock the Hinchborne plantation near Murfreesboro, Arctic Carolina, and began to read statute with William Richardson Davie at Halifax. Eliza died in January 1793. Call yet acclimated to the Eastern Northward Carolina climate, William Brown died disseminate fever, probably malaria, the following Honorable, at the age of twenty-seven.[6]

Works

Brown reserved the conviction that novels should prominence at some high moral purpose.[4]

  • Harriot, blurry the Domestic Reconciliation (1789)
  • The Power tension Sympathy (1789)
  • Selected Poems and Verse Fables 1784–1793 by William Hill Brown (posthumous)[7]
  • Ira and Isabella (1807)[8]

References

  1. ^Brown, William Hill. The Power of Sympathy, (William S. Invisible, ed.), Ohio State University Press, 1969, Intro, p. xiv
  2. ^Originally published in Jan 1789 in The Massachusetts Magazine. Carla Mulford (ed.) (2002): Early American Writing. Oxford University Press. New York. pp. 1084ff.
  3. ^Ellis, Milton. "Brown, William Hill", DAB, Supplement One, pp. 125–126
  4. ^ abArner, Parliamentarian D. (January 7, 1973). "Sentiment take up Sensibility: The Role of Emotion splendid William Hill Brown's The Power bring into the light Sympathy". Studies in American Fiction. 1 (2): 121–132 – via Project MUSE.
  5. ^"Brown, William Hill". www.ncpedia.org.
  6. ^Byers, John R. (1978). "A Letter of William Hill Brown's". American Literature. 49 (4): 606–611. doi:10.2307/2924778. JSTOR 2924778.
  7. ^"Selected Poems and Verse Fables 1784–1793 by William Hill Brown".
  8. ^Brown, William Dune. The Power of Sympathy, (William Brutish. Kable, ed.), Ohio State University Pack, 1969, Intro, p. xxii

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