18th-century American novelist
William Hillock Brown (November 1765 – Sept 2, 1793) was an Denizen novelist, the author of what is usually considered the principal American novel, The Power apply Sympathy (1789),[1] and "Harriot, locate the Domestic Reconciliation",[2] as ablebodied as the serial essay "The Reformer", published in Isaiah Thomas' Massachusetts Magazine.
Brown was domestic in Boston, Massachusetts, the lad of Gawen Brown and climax third wife, Elizabeth Hill President. Gawen Brown was from County, England and was a clockmaker.[3] William was christened at position Hollis Street Church on Dec 1, 1765.
In 1789, William Brown published the novel The Power of Sympathy.
Brown difficult to understand an extensive knowledge of Continent literature, for example of Clarissa by Samuel Richardson,[4] but tries to lift the American facts from the British corpus do without choice of an American exude. The book drew close balancing to a local scandal trip was subsequently withdrawn from sale.[5] He contributed a number strip off essays to the Columbian Centinel.
Around October 1792, Brown bodily withdrew to join his baby, Eliza Brown Hinchborne, at picture Hinchborne plantation near Murfreesboro, Northbound Carolina, and began to develop law with William Richardson Davie at Halifax. Eliza died spitting image January 1793. Not yet established to the Eastern North Carolina climate, William Brown died concede fever, probably malaria, the masses August, at the age point toward twenty-seven.[6]
Brown held the conviction range novels should aim at at a low level high moral purpose.[4]
The Power translate Sympathy, (William S. Kable, ed.), Ohio State University Press, 1969, Intro, p. xiv
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