About the Author
Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) has earned a general reputation as the early republic's most ambitious and accomplished literary figure. He wrote prolifically in many genres, founded and edited three major magazines, published widely-read political pamphlets, and intervened in many debates about the culture and politics of the new nation. Brown is mostly known for his novels and for Alcuin, his dialogue on women's rights.
Goal[sic], in Walnut Street
High Street, From the Country Marketplace
Bank of Pennsylvania
The House Intended for the President of the United States, in Ninth Street
Second Street North from Market St. with Christ Church
Mendenhall Ferry, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania
Back of the State House
Landscape engravings of Philadelphia by William Russell Birch (1755-1834)
Letter to Thomas Jefferson, December 25, 1798 (Library of Congress)
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