The power of sympathy
By: William Hill Brown; reproduced from the 1st ed. With a bibliographical note by Milton Ellis.
Contributors: Morton, Sarah Wentworth, 1759-1846, supposed author.; Ellis, Milton, 1885-1947.
Series: Facsimile Text Society. Publication,; no. 38
Publisher: Published for the Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press
Published: 1937
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Notes: Facsim. of the New York Public Library copy.
Original t. p. reads: The power of sympathy; or, The triumph of Nature, founded in truth.  In two volumes ... Printed at Boston, by Isaiah Thomas and Company, sold at their bookstore, no. 45, Newbury Street, and at said Thomas's bookstore in Worcester, 1789.
First published anonymously; a subsequent ed., published in 1894, was erroneously ascribed to Sarah Wentworth (Apthorp) Morton.  Cf. M. Ellis.  "The author of the first American novel" in Amer. lit., v. 4, 1933, p. [359]-868; J. N. Blanck.  Bibl. of Amer. lit., v. 1 (1955) p. 310.