Rowson's tale of a young girl who elopes to the United States only to be abandoned by her fiance was once the bestselling novel in American literary history. This edition also includes Lucy Temple, the fascinating story of Charlotte's orphaned daught...
Susanna Haswell Rowson, a popular and prolific writer, actress, and educator in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, had a truly transatlantic life and career, moving twice from England to America and publishing extensively in both...
Through a disguised approach, Rowson paints the real world where the women have to suffer in each and every field. From relationships to the outside world, being daughters and being mothers, she gives voice to the under-privileged and insecure woman....
The best-selling Early American novel is now available in a Norton Critical Edition.
An instant bestseller when it was published in America, the sentimental novel Charlotte Temple speaks to the popularity of the genre―and the public thirst f...Susanna Rowson (1762"1824) was a British-American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, stage actress and educator.“Sarah, or The Exemplary Wife” was first published in 1813. This was the last Susanna Rowson novel published during her l...