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This 7 page research paper compares and contrasts the characters of Ellen Montgomery in Susan Bogert Warner's The Wide, Wide World (1852), and Clara Wieland in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland (1798). Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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only by ones imagination. The concepts of gothic horror and romantic novels were quite popular in Western Europe, and had gradually found their way to America. Charles Brockden
Brown was one of the first authors willing to push the envelope, using the high moral tone of the times as a device for suspense and horror. It was
his writings about the supernatural, with religious overtones, which served to inspire both Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe ("Wieland, Or the Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown" wieland.html). In
1798, he penned Wieland, regarded by many as "the first important American novel" (Kelly notes_on_wieland.html), which featured the mysterious and occasionally delusional female character, Clara Wieland. Susan Bogert Warner, who
occasionally used the pen name Elizabeth Wetherell, was far more of a traditionalist than Charles B. Brown. From a one-time well-to-do family who had lost all of their fortune,
she, along with her sister Anna, wrote novels not for the sake of creativity, but to pay the bills. Her 1852 novel, The Wide, Wide World, is considered to
be the first American best-seller, and has been characterized by critics for its "piety, sentimentality, a lack of action, and overabundance of tears" ("Warner, Susan [Bogert]" warner.html).
The novels heroine was an impressionable young girl named Ellen Montgomery, who is separated from her ailing mother and forced to move in with an emotionally distant aunt, Fortune Emerson.
Ellens mother is a pious woman, probably not unlike Susan Bogert Warner herself, but Ellen does not receive the same solace from scriptures that her mother finds. Ellen
is depicted as willful and moody, but willing to do anything she could to please her beloved mother, whom she worshipped. It was Ellens love for her mother which
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