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Authors to works
Who wrote the following books of early America?
Work(s) | Author |
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The History of Plymouth Plantation | William Bradford |
The History of the Dividing Line | William Byrd |
Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up In America | Anne Bradsteet |
“Huswifery”, Upon a Spider Catching a Fly, The Bay Psalmbook (First book printed in America) | Edward Taylor |
Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral | Phyllis Wheatley |
Letters from an American Farmer | St. Jean de Crievecoeur |
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer | John Dickinson |
Democracy in America | Alexis de Toqueville |
The Power of Sympathy (First novel by an American) | William Hill Brown |
The Contrast | Royall Tyler |
Weiland, Edgar Huntly, Ormand, Arthur Mervyn, (This man is the first professional man of letters in America) | Charles Brockden Brown |
The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole |
Clotel: A Tale of the Southern States aka The President’s Daughter | William Wells Brown |
(First black woman ever to write a novel) | Harriet Nilson |
(First black to write a novel) | Frederick Douglass |