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Nov 01, 1996 | ISBN 9780140434682 Buy
Nov 01, 1996 | ISBN 9781440674204 Buy
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Nov 01, 1996 | ISBN 9780140434682
Nov 01, 1996 | ISBN 9781440674204
Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown’s The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster’s The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-century preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers of the young country’s morality.
William Wells Brown (1814–1884) was born a slave, escaped to the North and then to England, and became one of… More about William Wells Brown
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