Charlotte Temple
... Charlotte Temple by SUsanna Rowson was one of those. "Charlotte Temple became Americas first best-selling novel in the earliest years of the republic" (Rowson XI). ... The novel, Charlotte Temple, is important because it has an overall message, the authors voice is heard in the characters, and it is a story that needs to be told. ... I am the woman who turned the poor Charlotte out to perish in the street" (Rowson 119). ... For example, after seeing Charlotte Montraville says, "Why then should I endeavour to engage the affections of this lovely girl, only to leave her a prey to a thousand inquietudes, of which at present she has no idea?