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The North Carolina Sojourn of the First American Novelist

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20379
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This is a reprint of a paper presented at the 50th annual session of the State Literary and Historical Association in Raleigh, December, 1950. This paper examines the life and writings of Boston born William Hill Brown, credited for writing the first American novel. Brown was only in North Carolina for a year, where he visited relatives, studied law, and wrote poetry before falling ill and dying of fever in September, 1793. An account of his time and writings while in North Carolina, as well as excerpts from these writings, are included.
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