Title page of 1814 editionVault stone in the Trinity Church graveyard, but no one knows if anyone is actually interred in the vault.
Charlotte Temple is a novel by British-American author Susanna Rowson, originally published in England in 1791 under the title Charlotte, A Tale of Truth.[1] It tells the story of a schoolgirl, Charlotte Temple, who is seduced by a British officer and brought to America, where she is abandoned, pregnant, sick and in poverty. The first American edition was published in 1794 and the novel became a bestseller.[2] It has gone through over 200 American editions. Late in life, the author wrote a sequel that was published posthumously.[3]
^"Charlotte: A Tale of Truth - Brief Background Notes from Lecture on Rowson". Retrieved 2006-12-07.
^It has been called "the biggest bestseller in American History until Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852" (Rowson, Susanna. Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple, Ann Douglas, ed., New York: Penguin Books, 1991, Introduction, pp. vii-viii), and the first American best-selling novel (Watts, Emily Stipes. The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1978: 56. ISBN 0-292-76435-9 (cloth); ISBN 0-292-76450-2 (paper)).
^Henderson, Desirée (2007). "Illegitimate Children and Bastard Sequels: The Case of Susanna Rowson's Lucy Temple". Legacy. 24 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1353/leg.2007.0011. JSTOR 25679589. S2CID 161338787.
CharlotteTemple is a novel by British-American author Susanna Rowson, originally published in England in 1791 under the title Charlotte, A Tale of Truth...
under the title Charlotte's Daughter, or, The Three Orphans. It was a sequel to Rowson's extremely popular novel CharlotteTemple. Lucy Temple is the daughter...
what was described as a form of marriage with a female companion, CharlotteTemple, whom she had met in London in 1864. Macpherson Grant donated generously...
Charlotte: A Tale of Truth, published in London in 1791. In 1794 the novel was reissued in Philadelphia under the title, CharlotteTemple. Charlotte Temple...
also wrote against slavery. Rowson was the author of the 1791 novel CharlotteTemple, the most popular best-seller in American literature until Harriet...
behaviour leads to her "self-destruction and death". Examples include CharlotteTemple by Susanna Rowson (1791), The Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster (1797)...
in Tales of the City as Inka, and in the Netflix series Godless as CharlotteTemple. Godless, produced by Steven Soderbergh, is a Western that focuses...
Donegal. The current proprietors of Magee are Howard Temple's son Lynn and Lynn's children Charlotte and Patrick. Magee continues to be the largest and...
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Keeping Home Fresh". The Charlotte Observer. August 5, 2007. Retrieved October 23, 2011. "Clemson, Temple Agree to Charlotte Site". The Post and Courier...
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On February 17, 2011, Temple returned to the BayHawks. On March 7, 2011, Temple signed a 10-day contract with the Charlotte Bobcats. On March 17, 2011...
assistant coach for several teams. Brunson played college basketball for the Temple Owls. Born in Syracuse, New York, he attended Salem High School, becoming...
genre of the seduction novel. That genre, examples of which include CharlotteTemple (1791) and The Quadroons, written in 1842 by M. Lydia Child, who would...
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