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  • Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple

    by Susanna Rowson ...
    **Two classics by one of early America's most successful women writersA 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Charlotte Temple

    by Susanna Rowson ...
    Susanna Rowson, a British American novelist, poet, playwright, actress, and educator, was responsible for writing the first American best-selling novel. In 1791, Rowson published "Charlotte Temple", which held the rank of best-selling novel of all time until Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852). During her lifetime, she dabbled in many genres, composing novels, poetry, plays, musical ... Read more

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  • Charlotte Temple

    by Susanna Rowson ...
    The novel tells the tragic story of Charlotte Temple, a young English girl who falls prey to the manipulations of a dashing soldier named John Montraville. Charlotte, a naive and impressionable boarding school student, is seduced by Montraville's promises of love and a life of excitement in America.Believing in Montraville's affections, Charlotte leaves England and accompanies him to America, ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charlotte Temple

    by Susanna Rowson ...
    Charlotte temple unfolds as a poignant tale of innocence, temptation, and the consequences of misplaced trust. Set in a society governed by rigid moral codes, the story follows a young woman whose sheltered upbringing leaves her vulnerable to the allure of romantic promises and the harsh realities that follow. Beginning within the calm confines of a boarding school and extending into a world ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Charlotte Temple

    A Tale of Truth

    by Susanna Rowson ...
    Series series Love & Society
    A fifteen-year-old schoolgirl is persuaded to leave England with an officer who promises marriage in New York. Rowson published it in 1791 and it outsold everything in America until Uncle Tom's Cabin — readers went looking for Charlotte's grave in Trinity churchyard, and someone obligingly provided one. It is a warning tale that made its author rich and its heroine a national relic. Sixty plates ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charlotte Temple

    by Susanna Rowson ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    With an Introduction by Jane SmileyFirst published in America in 1794, Charlotte Temple took the country by storm—in fact, it was this nation’s first bona fide “bestseller.” Susanna Rowson’s most famous work is the story of an innocent British schoolgirl who takes the advice of her depraved French teacher— with tragic consequences. Seduced by the dashing Lieutenant Montraville, who persuades her ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Charlotte Temple

    by Susanna Rowson ...
    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. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charlotte Temple

    With linked Table of Contents

    by Susanna Rowson ...
    This riveting novel tells of the seduction of a British schoolgirl by a dashing soldier, John Montraville, who brings her to America and there abandons her, pregnant and ill. As such, it belongs to the seduction novel genre popular in early American literature. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charlotte Temple

    by Susanna Rowson ...
    Susanna Rowson was an American novelist, poet, and playwright best known for writing Charlotte Temple in 1791. Charlotte Temple was the best-selling book in American literature until Uncle Tom's Cabin. The action centers around a British schoolgirl who falls in love with a dreamy soldier who brings her to America. A table of contents is included. ... Read more

    $2.70 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charlotte Temple (Mobi Classics)

    by Susanna Rowson ...
    Charlotte Temple is a novel by Susanna Rowson. It was first published in England in 1791 under the title Charlotte, A Tale of Truth. The first American edition was published in 1794 and the novel became a bestseller. It has gone through over 200 American editions. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charlotte Temple

    by Susanna Rowson ...
    The book tells of the seduction of a British schoolgirl by a dashing soldier, John Montraville, who brings her to America and there abandons her, pregnant and ill. As such, it belongs to the seduction novel genre popular in early American literature. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Charlotte Temple

    by Susanna Rowson ...
    First published in England in 1791 and the United States in 1794, Susanna Rowson’s “Charlotte Temple” was America’s first best-selling novel. The story is an example of the seduction novel genre, which was wildly popular in early American literature and focuses on the dangers to young ladies of being seduced by unscrupulous men. In Rowson’s novel, the main character is Charlotte Temple, a lovely ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD