Download or read book The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette written by William Hill Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.