This author argued that fiction provides more truthful depictions of events than standard histories in essays such as "Historical Characters Are False Representations of Nature" and "The Difference between History and Romance." His final novel describes, in epistolary form, a woman who falls in love with the poet Henry Colden, a devotee of William Godwin, but must conquer 
This author argued that fiction provides more truthful depictions of events than standard histories in essays such as "Historical Characters Are False Representations of Nature" and "The Difference between History and Romance." His final novel describes, in epistolary form, a woman who falls in love with the poet Henry Colden, a devotee of William Godwin, but must conquer the objections of her aunt Mrs. Fielder. Previous to Jane Talbot, in another novel this author describes a villainously intelligent title figure who is "the secret witness" to Constantia Dudley's affairs. In an earlier work, subtitled "Memoirs of a Sleep Walker," the title character tries to determine whether Clithero murdered Waldegrave. Better known than Ormond and Edgar Huntly is a novel in which Theodore misinterprets the voices of the ventriloquist Carwin and ends up killing his own wife and children. FTP, name this early American author of Wieland.
This author argued that fiction provides more truthful depictions of events than standard histories in essays such as "Historical Characters Are False Representations of Nature" and "The Difference between History and Romance."
Charles Brockden {Brown}