Susanna Rowson

Mrs. Rowson

Cathy N. Davidson offers a completely corrected edition, with a new introduction, of Charlotte Temple, the most widely read novel in America until Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Charlotte Temple tells the story of a young English girl, whose liaison with a British officer led her to Revolutionary America, where she was abandoned and died giving birth to an illegitimate child. Though no evidence exists to prove the existence of a real Charlotte, the author insisted that it was a "tale of truth" and wrote it to be "of service to [the]...young and unprotected woman in her first entrance into life."

Charlotte Temple

Susanna Rowson's best known work, CHARLOTTE TEMPLE is the story of an innocent British schoolgirl who follows the advice of Mademoiselle La Rue, her immoral French teacher. Lured to America and seduced by an English lieutenant named I Montraville who has promised her true love and marriage, Charlotte abandons her adoring parents and makes the sea voyage to I New York. Discarded by Montraville, who promptly falls in love with a wealthy young American, Charlotte must fend off the advances of Montraville's ruthless comrade, Belcour. Pregnant with Montraville's illegitimate child. Charlotte is unable to save herself from poverty and ruin. Briefly reunited with her father, Charlotte gives birth to a baby girl and dies in her father's arms.

Jennifer Margulis

Karen Poremski

Or, A Struggle for Freedom

Slaves in Algiers

A Tale of Truth

One of the Three Orphans. A Sequel to Charlotte Temple

Lucy Temple

Susanna Haswell Rowson

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Charlotte and Lucy Temple

historia verdadera, escrita en Ingles

Carlota Temple

A Trip to Parnassus; or, The judgment of Apollo on dramatic authors and performers. A poem

Thomas Truxtun

Sleep You, Or Wake You, Lady Bright

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