Section 3 Lang/Lit

Question 1

What date was Brown Born?

Answer 1

Jan 17, 1771

Question 2

What is brown referred to as?

Answer 2

America’s first “professional writer”

Question 3

What is brown praised for?

Answer 3

Being one of the first belletristic writers born, educated, and published in the US

Question 4

What is brown depicted as?

Answer 4

A martyr to American apathy to the literary arts

Question 5

Where was Brown born?

Answer 5

Philadelphia

Question 5

Where was Brown born?

Answer 5

Philadelphia

Question 6

When was brown Born?

Answer 6

January 17,1771

Question 7

What was his paternal great grandfather?

Answer 7

One of the original Quaker founders of Nottingham Pennsylvania

Question 8

What was his maternal grandfather?

Answer 8

A prominent philadelphian furniture maker

Question 9

Who was his father?

Answer 9

Elijah Brown, Sr. (1740-1810)

Question 10

What did Brown’s father do?

Answer 10

Land conveyancer and merchant

Question 11

What happened in the winter of 1777-78

Answer 11

Brown’s father was arrested and imprisoned

Question 12

Why was Brown’s father arrested?

Answer 12

As a quaker, he refused to swear and oath of allegience to the colonial cause

Question 13

Did brown attend college?

Answer 13

No, he had a good secondary education between 1781-86 at the Friends Latin School

Question 14

What did his family hope he would become?

Answer 14

A lawyer to help assist with his older brothers family business (import-export trading house)

Question 15

What did Brown do to prepare to become a lawyer?

Answer 15

He was an apprentice for 2 years to a Philadelphia lawyer

Question 16

Did Brown want to be a lawyer?

Answer 16

No, he wanted to be an author

Question 17

In 1789, at 18 - what did Brown do?

Answer 17

Published a brief periodical essay series called “The Rhapsodist”

Question 18

Where did brown first publish his work?

Answer 18

In a prominent early American Magazine

Question 19

What did Brown establish with his friends?

Answer 19

A literary society called the Belles Lettres Club

Question 20

Who was one of Brown’s closest friends?

Answer 20

William Dunlap (a playwright and painter)

Question 21

Who wrote the first biography of Brown?

Answer 21

William Dunlap

Question 22

Where was Brown and Dunlap drawn to?

Answer 22

NYC (and to an intellectual society there called the Friendly Club)

Question 23

When did Brown and Dunlap move to New York?

Answer 23

Around 1796

Question 24

Who did Brown share lodgings with?

Answer 24

Elihu Hubbard Smith (a doctor who had studied in philidephia)

Question 25

What did Smith found?

Answer 25

One of the earliest medical periodicals in the US

Question 26

With financial support, what was Brown’s first book?

Answer 26

Alcuin: A Dialogue Alcuin (sponsored by E. Smith)

Question 27

What was Alcuin about?

Answer 27

A fictional debate between a schoolmaster and a woman about women’s rights

Question 28

What is the utopia described in Alcuin’s main thing?

Answer 28

Men and women are equal

Question 29

When was Wieland published?

Answer 29

Soon after Alcuin in 1798 (being Brown’s first published novel)

Question 30

What happened to E. Smith soon after Wieland was published?

Answer 30

He died after being exposed to yellow fever through treating patients

Question 31

What happened in Philadelphia between Aug. - Nov. 1793

Answer 31

A yellow fever epidemic hit that killed 10% of the cities population (Brown + family survived)

Question 32

What happened in New York in 1798?

Answer 32

An outbreak that killed Smith, which also infected Brown (lowering his overall health throughout life)