biography
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Brown, Charles Brockden
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| male
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| lived:
| (1771–1810)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. A Quaker and Philadelphia lawyer who moved to New York City to write (1796), he is regarded as the country's first professional author. His first publication, Alcuin: A Dialogue (1798), focused on the rights of women. He wrote four groundbreaking American Gothic romances, including Wieland (1798) and Arthur Mervyn (2 vols, 1799–1800). As these did not earn him much money, he returned to Philadelphia (1801) and worked as a merchant, editor, and translator. He died of tuberculosis. |
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