In the canon
Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple
Susanna Rowson
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1791
- Pages
- Pages 300
Rowson keeps stopping her own story to plead with you. She breaks off mid-scene, addresses the girls she imagines reading, then goes back to the ruin she is assembling: a fifteen-year-old at a Chichester boarding school, an officer with a good face and no intention of marrying, a French teacher paid to look away, a ship to New York.
Oh my dear girls—for to such only am I writing—listen not to the voice of love, unless sanctioned by paternal approbation
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