This sad story proved longer-lasting as a probable source for William Hill Brown
âs The Power of Sympatthy, published on 21 January 1789.
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Sarah Wentworth Morton
William Hill Brown
's epistolary, sentimental The Power of Sympathy; or, The Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, the first American novel, presented an episode of seduction and suicide modelled on that of...
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Sarah Wentworth Morton
It had already made its presence felt before it was published. The Apthorp family tried to suppress it, and few copies survive, though many more than the half-dozen posited by SWM
's biographers.
Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press.
