The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette

by William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440674204
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/01/1996
Series:	Penguin Classics Series
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

William Wells Brown (1814–1884) was born a slave, escaped to the North and then to England, and became one of the most prominent abolitionists of his time. During his prolific literary career, Brown was a pioneer in several different genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama.