The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette

by William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster

Genres: Classics; Literary Fiction; Short Stories

Synopsis

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.

Release date: November 1, 1996

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Print pages: 352