Name: Charlotte Temple
Rating: 3.5 (8 reviews)
ISBN: 9780393925388

Mrs. Rowson

Marion Rust

The best-selling Early American novel is now available in a Norton Critical Edition.

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Charlotte Temple

Susanna 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."

Delaney Woods 

read this for class. it was boring and nothing really happened. it was a very quick read tho

Emerson Clute

A story of seduction, betrayal and retribution. It is a sentimental, moralistic novel of Eighteenth century that leaves the protagonist, Charlotte, in the midst of a cunning and unforgiving world. The quest of love leaves her in America; lonely and away from home. With moral teachings and guidelines for women, the novel instantly captivates.

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