The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette
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By William Hill Brown, Hannah Webster Foster, Carla Mulford (Introduction), Carla Mulford (Noted by)
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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.






















