Society
Charlotte Temple
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA young woman is seduced by false promises of marriage and abandoned to a country and a fate the era’s readers were meant to take as a moral warning. It was, in its day, wildly popular precisely because it let respectable readers feel scandalised on someone else’s behalf. Read past the moralising and there is real grief underneath it.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 2 hr 30 min
- Where to find it
- On the Society shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #171. In the public domain in the United States.