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The Power of Sympathy
William Hill Brown/The Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster (in one volume)
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1789
- Pages
- Pages 300
The first novel written and printed in America opens as an ordinary courtship in letters, Harrington writing about a girl of no fortune with all the confidence of a young man who expects to be indulged, and then a letter arrives to tell him what his father's old sin has made of them: Harriot is his half-sister. The Power of Sympathy keeps the correspondence going afterwards, all delicacy and compliment, far too well mannered to carry what it now has to say, and that mismatch is where the dread lives.
An unusual sensation possesses my breast—a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever.
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