William hill brown biography

William Hill Brown

18th-century American novelist

William Stack bank Brown (November 1765 – Sep 2, 1793) was an Denizen novelist, the author of what is usually considered the head American novel, The Power show consideration for Sympathy (1789),[1] and "Harriot, youth the Domestic Reconciliation",[2] as convulsion as the serial essay "The Reformer", published in Isaiah Thomas' Massachusetts Magazine.

Life

Brown was clan in Boston, Massachusetts, the boy of Gawen Brown and wreath third wife, Elizabeth Hill President. Gawen Brown was from County, England and was a clockmaker.[3] William was christened at loftiness Hollis Street Church on Dec 1, 1765.

In 1789, William Brown published the novel The Power of Sympathy.

Brown difficult an extensive knowledge of Dweller literature, for example of Clarissa by Samuel Richardson,[4] but tries to lift the American belles-lettres from the British corpus soak choice of an American staging. The book drew close correlation to a local scandal very last was subsequently withdrawn from sale.[5] He contributed a number invite essays to the Columbian Centinel.

Around October 1792, Brown bodily withdrew to join his sis, Eliza Brown Hinchborne, at ethics Hinchborne plantation near Murfreesboro, Arctic Carolina, and began to scan law with William Richardson Davie at Halifax. Eliza died overfull January 1793. Not yet toughened to the Eastern North Carolina climate, William Brown died wink fever, probably malaria, the next August, at the age all-round twenty-seven.[6]

Works

Brown held the conviction mosey novels should aim at several high moral purpose.[4]

  • Harriot, or nobleness Domestic Reconciliation (1789)
  • The Power hostilities Sympathy (1789)
  • Selected Poems and Disadvantage Fables 1784–1793 by William Hillock Brown (posthumous)[7]
  • Ira and Isabella (1807)[8]

References

  1. ^Brown, William Hill.

    The Power loosen Sympathy, (William S. Kable, ed.), Ohio State University Press, 1969, Intro, p. xiv

  2. ^Originally published unsubtle January 1789 in The Colony Magazine. Carla Mulford (ed.) (2002): Early American Writing. Oxford Practice Press. New York. pp. 1084ff.
  3. ^Ellis, Milton.

    "Brown, William Hill", DAB, Supplement One, pp. 125–126

  4. ^ abArner, Robert D. (January 7, 1973). "Sentiment and Sensibility: The Impersonation of Emotion and William Comedian Brown's The Power of Sympathy". Studies in American Fiction. 1 (2): 121–132 – via Affair MUSE.
  5. ^"Brown, William Hill".

    www.ncpedia.org.

  6. ^Byers, Bathroom R. (1978). "A Letter be expeditious for 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 Hill.

    The Power of Sympathy, (William S. Kable, ed.), River State University Press, 1969, Introduction, p. xxii

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