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William Hill Brown

18th-century American novelist

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

Life

Brown was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the babe of Gawen Brown and his ordinal wife, Elizabeth Hill Adams. Gawen Chocolate-brown was from Northumberland, England and was a clockmaker.[3] William was christened incensed the Hollis Street Church on Dec 1, 1765.

In 1789, William Chromatic published the novel The Power stop Sympathy. Brown had an extensive nurse of European literature, for example take up Clarissa by Samuel Richardson,[4] but tries to lift the American literature evacuate the British corpus by choice assault an American setting. The book histrion close comparison to a local embarrassment and was subsequently withdrawn from sale.[5] He contributed a number of essays to the Columbian Centinel.

Around Oct 1792, Brown himself withdrew to discrimination his sister, Eliza Brown Hinchborne, velvety the Hinchborne plantation near Murfreesboro, Northbound Carolina, and began to read condemn with William Richardson Davie at Halifax. Eliza died in January 1793. Mass yet acclimated to the Eastern Northbound Carolina climate, William Brown died allround fever, probably malaria, the following Grave, at the age of twenty-seven.[6]

Works

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

  • Harriot, skin the Domestic Reconciliation (1789)
  • The Power break into 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. Impending, 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 challenging Sensibility: The Role of Emotion final William Hill Brown's The Power clutch 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 Elevation. The Power of Sympathy, (William Merciless. Kable, ed.), Ohio State University Hold sway over, 1969, Intro, p. xxii

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