A character created by a writer with this surname dies in a temple when his clothing spontaneously combusts.
In a novel by an author with this surname, a woman relates how her husband had an affair with her sister Ophelia, who then poisoned herself, mirroring how the protagonist shoots himself while reading The Sorrows of Young Werther. A character created by a writer with this surname dies in a temple when his clothing spontaneously combusts. The main revelation of a book by a man with this last name is that (*) Thomas Harrington is about to marry his half-sister. It is shared by the author who wrote about Catharine Pleyel's murder by a man who hears voices that may have come from a ventriloquist. Bizarrely, two men with this last name wrote candidates for the "First American Novel;" those books are The Power of Sympathy and Wieland. For 10 points, give this surname of authors William Hill and Charles Brockden.
In a novel by an author with this surname, a woman relates how her husband had an affair with her sister Ophelia, who then poisoned herself, mirroring how the protagonist shoots himself while reading The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Brown [or William Hill Brown; or Charles Brockden Brown