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Charles Brockden Brown was born into a Quaker family in Philadelphia on January 17, 1771. In 1796, he abandoned the practice of law and moved to New York to pursue a literary career, thus becoming the first American to take up writing as a profession. Brown is best known for the novel Wieland, or The Transformation. He died of tuberculosis in 1810.

Works in the EAF Collection

Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 [Volume 1] (1799) [Volume 2] (1800) (Restricted)

Clara Howard: In a Series of Letters (1801) (Restricted)

Death of Cicero, a Fragment (1799) (Restricted)

Edgar Huntley (1799) [Volume 1] [Volume 2] [Volume 3] (Restricted)

Jane Talbot (1801) (Restricted)

Ormond; or, The Secret Witness (1799) (Restricted)

Wieland (1798) (Restricted)

Contemporary Biographies

From Oscar Fay Adams, A Dictionary of American Authors (1901)

From Samuel Austin Allibone, A Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1900)

From Evert A. Duyckinck, Cyclopaedia of American Literature (1856)

Other Resources

Brown works in the Modern English Collection from the Electronic Text Center