Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Benjamin Franklin” in chapter 2.16 of Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I:
...ry which the first great British novelists won over popular taste did not, for some years, make them masters of the colonial public.
Pamela, indeed, was printed as early as 1744 in Philadelphia, by Benjamin Franklin , and in the same year in New York and in Boston.
But the only other novels printed in America before the Declaration of Independence seem to have been (1768), Rasselas (1768), (1772), (1 774), a...
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