Question
Answer the following about contenders for the United States' first novel. For 10 points each:
[10m] Many consider The Power of Sympathy, a novel by an author with this surname, to be the first American novel. Another novelist with this surname wrote about the biloquist Carwin and the murderous Theodore in Wieland (“WEE-land”).
ANSWER: Brown [or William Hill Brown; or Charles Brockden Brown]
[10e] Some scholars note that a Thomas Digges novel about Alonso, whose title begins with this word, was the first American novel. This is the first noun in the title of a novel whose protagonist fools his friends into painting Aunt Polly's fence.
ANSWER: adventures [or Adventures of Alonso; or The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]
[10h] This author wrote one of the earliest novels about a schoolgirl convinced by John Montraville to run away with him to the US before being abandoned, titled Charlotte Temple.
ANSWER: Susanna Rowson [or Susanna Halwell]
<Noah Sheidlower, American Literature>
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