Katherine mansfield brief biography of william hill

_{Katherine Mansfield was born a century ago and died in , but there is still something tantalizing about the &#;faint ghost with the steady eyes, the mocking lips and, at the end, the wreath set on her hair.&#;*}

*quote from The Diary of Virginia Woolf: ()

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The Power of Sympathywas published anonymously and references a local scandal in which Brown's neighbor, Perez Morton, seduces and impregnates Fanny Anthrop. She committed suicide while Morton went unpunished. Many accredited The Power of Sympathy to the poet Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton due to her relation to the scandal. Brown wasn't given credit for his novel until !

Biography of William Hill Brown

Not much is written about William Hill Brown's short life. William Hill Brown was born in Boston in He anonymously published his first novel, The Power of Sympathy, at the age of twenty-three. He would go on to write two more novels, Harriot, or the Domestic Reconciliation () and Ira and Isabella (), essays, and poems that were posthumously published in Selected Poems and Verse Fables by William Hill Brown ().

Brown was born in colonial Boston. Pixabay.

In , William Hill Brown decided to go study law and moved to North Carolina. Brown settled in Murfreesboro, North

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How many of you out there write a journal?  I'm guessing quite a few.  I've been keeping one on and off since my sense of Self began to develop at around 13 or  And, as I wanted to be a writer, I was fascinated by other writers' diaries.  The journals of Kathrine Mansfield, edited by her husband John Middleton Murry, were the first ones to really grab me by the metaphorical throat when I found them at the age of  They had a raw, vulnerable quality that entranced me, though I never dreamt I would one day become her biographer and hold the originals in  my hands.

One of Katherine Mansfield's notebooks, a few months before she died.

They also gripped a young woman in Cambridge, who read Mansfield and had ambitions to become a writer or an artist. She kept a journal every day, recording her own life at great length for 60 years.

I've been reading Alexander Masters' intriguing book 'A Life Discarded', after hearing him talk about it at the Keswic