Theodore and Catherine live in the main house, and Clara has her own house on her half of the estate.Ĭatherine’s brother Henry Pleyel returns from Europe and lives nearby, visiting the Wielands nearly every day. The Weiland estate is divided equally between Clara and her brother. Theodore and Catherine eventually marry and have four children.

The children, Clara and Theodore, form a friendship with Catherine Pleyel and her brother Henry Pleyel, called “Pleyel” by the other characters. His wife soon died as well, leaving their children to be raised by their aunt. His failure ate at him, however, until, falling into a depression, he experienced what appeared to be an instance of spontaneous combustion and died. Finding them uninterested in his teachings, he settled down to raise a family. She sets the stage by explaining that her father came to the New World to evangelize Indigenous people. Wieland is told through letters in the epistolary format by Clara Wieland, who recounts the events leading up to the deaths of her brother and his family.

This study guide refers to the Kindle edition of Weiland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist Publishing (December 23, 2019).Ĭontent Warning: Wieland depicts or contains references to murder, death by suicide, and sexual assault. Wollstonecraft and Godwin’s daughter, Mary Shelley, reread Brown’s novels while she was writing Frankenstein. In England, Brown was influenced by well-known social progressive writers and thinkers like Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Thomas Holcroft, and Robert Bage. Other American authors considered him a significant influence, including Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and James Fenimore Cooper. He was the first American author to have his works translated into French and German. Brown is one of the most highly regarded American authors of the 18th century.

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