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Charlotte Temple
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Charlotte Temple is Susanna Rowson's sentimental novel about a young Englishwoman who is seduced and taken to America, where she is abandoned and left to face the consequences. It suits readers interested in early American fiction and the history of the sentimental novel.
Mrs. Rowson
Susanna Rowson, née Haswell, was a British-American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, stage actress, and educator. She was the first woman geographer and an early supporter of female education. She also wrote against slavery. Rowson was the author of the 1791 novel Charlotte Temple, the most popular best-seller in American literature until Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published serially in 1851–1852, and authored the first human geography textbook Rowson's Abridgement of Universal Geography in 1805.
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