The protagonist gets good advice from his friend Worthy and his sister Myra, but it does no good.
The protagonist gets good advice from his friend Worthy and his sister Myra, but it does no good. In a subplot, Ophelia Shepherd kills herself after sleeping with her brother-in-law Martin. Mrs. Morton's sister also kills herself after Mr. Morton tries to sleep with her, and the protagonist joins in the suicidal hijinks after discovering that the woman he wants to marry is really the daughter of his father's mistress. This epistolary romance was originally attributed to the author of Ouabi, but is now thought to be by an author who used basically the same plot in 1807's Ira and Isabella. [*] Subtitled "The Triumphs of Nature," it uses the tragic fate of Harriot and Harrington to demonstrate both the "advantages of female education" and the "dangerous consequences of seduction." FTP, name this book that was published anonymously in 1789, though it was probably written by William Hill Brown, and which is considered the first American novel.
The protagonist gets good advice from his friend Worthy and his sister Myra, but it does no good.
The {Power of Sympathy}