Power of Sympathy; or, the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth
Author: first_name: William Hill
last_name: Brown
Language: English
Year: 1894

<i>The Power of Sympathy</i> was the first American novel, published in Boston in January 1789. An epistolary novel, it tells the tragic story of the relationship of an orphan girl and a man of good family, with a dramatic twist and tragic ending. It was inspired by an actual scandal in the Apthorp family of Boston, the "Ophelia" and "Martin" related within the story.<br /><br />

It was published anonymously, and there has been controversy over the authorship. For over a century his family kept