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Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown and the Coquette (Penguin Classics) by Hannah Webster Foster nature therapy John James Audubon Painted BirdsWritten 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. William Wells Brown (1814 1884) was born a slave, escaped to the North and then to England, and became one of the most prominent