The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette
Author: Wells Brown, William
ISBN: 9780140434682
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 01 Nov 1996
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback / softback
Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown'sThe Power of Sympathy(1789) and Foster'sThe 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.
ISBN: 9780140434682
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 01 Nov 1996
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback / softback
Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown'sThe Power of Sympathy(1789) and Foster'sThe 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.
