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Loading... Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple (Penguin Classics) (edition 1991)by Susanna Rowson, Ann Douglas (Contributor)
Work detailsCharlotte Temple and Lucy Temple by Susanna Rowson
None. Possibly the first novel set in New York City, and one of the earliest American novels, it tells of a girl seduced and how her life goes to hell in a handbasket thereafter. The second novel tells the hard-knock-life story of her offspring. (  ) Georges_T._Dodds | Mar 30, 2013 |  Short, easy to read, and amusing for its heavy-handed inclusion of advice for "innocent and naive" young women. Novels like Charlotte Temple, often termed a "seduction novel" were basically advice books with a story line, which accounts for the "preachy" narrator. I thought Charlotte and her constant "what will become of me" type comments were hysterical, even though you're suppose to seriously sympathize with her plight. P.S. Charlotte Temple was so popular in its time that the protagonist has an actual tombstone somewhere in New York City. (  ) hardcastle | Jan 10, 2011 | no reviews | add a review
 No descriptions found. 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. --Wikipedia.com.… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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