Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple
$36.90
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 February 1991
Summary
Two classics by one of early America’s most successful women writers
A Penguin Classic
First published in 1794, Charlotte Temple was the biggest bestseller of American literary history until Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, half a century later. The story of a young English girl who elopes to America, there only to be cruelly abandoned, Charlotte Temple was repeatedly dramatized during the nineteenth century and provided inspiration for D. …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140390803 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140390804 |
| Author: | Susanna Rowson, Anne Douglas |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 1991 |
| Weight: | 231g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 127mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Susanna Rowson
Susanna Musgrove Haswell Rowson, destined to be one of the founding mothers of American literature, was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1762. She was taken to America in 1767 but returned to England in 1778. In 1793, with her husband, William Rowson, she moved to America for good and began a long and successful career as an actress, author, and feminist educator, first in Philadelphia, then in the Boston area. She died in 1828.
Among her most popular works were the novels:
- Rebecca; or, The Fille de Chambre (1792)
- Charlotte Temple (1791 England; 1794 America)
- Charlotte’s Daughter; or, The Three Orphans (1828)
She also wrote the play Slaves in Algiers (1794) and the song “America, Commerce, and Freedom.”
Ann Douglas is Parr Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of The Feminization of American Culture, as well as many articles and reviews on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American culture.
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