American Literature / Unit 5 AML 0425 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Susanna Rowson and *Charlotte Temple*
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The idea
Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple, published in seventeen ninety-one, follows a schoolgirl persuaded to elope to America, abandoned there, and left to die after childbirth. It was among the most widely read novels in the early republic, and the board takes a sample passage from its opening pages.
In practice
The early republic's bestseller.
Where people slip
Rowson rests on the survey witness and the novel itself.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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