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Women in Early America: Intellect, Education, Sexuality
[Advice to a Friend upon Choosing a Mistress] / Benjamin Franklin
Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms / Judith Sargent Murray
From On the Equality of the Sexes
A New Bundling Song / Anonymous
A New Song in Favour of Courting / Anonymous
From Thoughts upon Female Education / Benjamin Rush
Introduction to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman / Mary Wollstonecraft
Rights of Woman / Anonymous
Rights of Woman / Susanna Rowson
An Extract / Oliver Goldsmith
Sisterhood / Nancy F. Cott
Pregnancy and the New Birth in Charlotte Temple and The Coquette / Anna Mae Duane.
A Changing Tale of Truth: Charlotte Temple's British Roots / Camryn Hansen
From The Power of Sympathy; or, The Triumph of Nature / William Hill Brown
Character and Effects of Modern Novels / Anonymous
Novel Reading, A Cause of Female Depravity / Anonymous
Novel-Reading / Charles Brockden Brown
"We Own That Ladies Sometimes Read": Women's Reading in the Early Republic / Linda Kerber
From Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life / William J. Gilmore
The Life and Times of Charlotte Temple: The Biography of a Book / Cathy N. Davidson
From Preface to Clarissa / Samuel Richardson
Head and Heart Letter / Thomas Jefferson
From The Coquette / Hannah Webster Foster
From Sensibility: An Introduction / Janet Todd
From Why Daughters Die: The Racial Logic of American Sentimentalism / Nancy Armstrong.
Reclaiming Sentimental Literature / Joanne Dobson
From What Is Sentimentality? / June Howard
Grave Matters: Susanna Rowson's Sentimental Geographies / Lauren Coats
Selections From Rowson's Writings
To Ladies and Gentlemen, Patrons of Entertaining Literature
Charlotte. Chapter VI (1st British edition)
Preface to Trials of the Human Heart
Preface to Reuben and Rachel
From Verses to a Libertine
From The Fille de Chambre
From Charlotte's Daughter
From Slaves in Algiers: or, a struggle for Freedom
Dialogue. For Three Young Ladies
Review of Charlotte Temple / Anonymous
From Review on the Roman-Drama-Poe-Tic Works of Mrs. S. Rowson, of the New Theatre, Philadelphia / William Cobbett
A Word of Comfort to Mrs. Rowson / John Swanwick
Letter to S. Rowson, April 23, 1812 / Mathew Carey
From Memoir / Samuel L. Knapp
From A Memoir of Mrs. Susanna Rowson / Elias Nason
From Gaining Confidence / Larzer Ziff
Charlotte Temple and the End of Epistolarity / Blythe Forcey
Susanna Rowson, Father of the American Novel / Jane Tompkins
Rakes, Conquettes and Republican Patriarchs: Class, Gender and Nation in Early American Sentimental Fiction / Gareth Evans
From Seductive Education and the Virtues of the Republic / Elizabeth Barnes
From Working through the Frame: The Dream of Transparency in Charlotte Temple / Julia A. Stern
What's Wrong with Charlotte Temple? / Marion Rust.