![]() His wishes never led him astray from the hay-stack and the furrow. My eldest brother seemed fitted by nature for the employment to which he was destined. I was the second son of a farmer, whose place of residence was a western district of Pennsylvania. Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (A Fragment) Brown’s brief but productive career earned the admiration of Walter Scott, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, all of whom he inspired and influenced. Although he was far from the only writer working in early America, his critical acclaim and popular success certainly make him one of the most important. His style exhibits a profound understanding of Gothic fiction and radical democratic politics, and his works incorporate elements of sentimental fiction, the captivity narrative, and epistolary form in their composition. He was heavily influenced by British radicals of the French Revolutionary period, including Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, and became an important figure both in the developing American literary scene and for such writers as Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley. Alongside his work as a successful author of novels, short stories, essays, and poetry, Brown was a well-regarded editor and public intellectual. ![]() ![]() Born to a family of Quakers in Philadelphia, Brown studied as a lawyer before embarking on a literary career. ![]() Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) was an American novelist and historian. ![]()
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