William Hill Brown
William Hill Brown (November 1765 – 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",[1] 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 choice of an American setting.
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- Works by William Hill Brown at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- 1765 births
- 1793 deaths
- 18th-century American dramatists and playwrights
- Writers from Boston
- 18th-century American novelists
- 18th-century American male writers
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