The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette

Author  William Hill Brown and Hannah Webster Foster Introduction by  Carla Mulford Notes by  Carla Mulford
The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette
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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.