Susanna Rowson publishes Charlotte Temple.

Charlotte Temple goes through more than 200 editions and is considered to be the most popular American novel before Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1853.

Source: Rowson, Susanna. Charlotte Temple. ed. Cathy N. Davidson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Category: Literature, entry number 59

Entered by Betsey on 06 July 2004 at 2:50 PM