Snbrn biography of william hill

18th-century American novelist

William Hill Brown (November 1765 – September 2, 1793) was an American novelist, the author of what is usually considered the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy (1789),^[1] and "Harriot, or the Domestic Reconciliation",^[2] as well as the serial essay "The Reformer", published in Isaiah Thomas' Massachusetts Magazine.

Life

Brown was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Gawen Brown and his third wife, Elizabeth Hill Adams. Gawen Brown was from Northumberland, England and was a clockmaker.^[3] William was christened at the Hollis Street Church on December 1, 1765.

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In 1789, William Brown published the novel The Power of Sympathy. Brown had an extensive knowledge of European literature, for example of Clarissa by Samuel Richardson,^[4] but tries to lift the American literature from the British corpus by choice of an American setting.

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