CHARLOTTE TEMPLECHARLOTTE TEMPLEBY SUSANNA HASWELL ROWSON1- Page 2-CHARLOTTE TEMPLEPREFACE.FOR the perusal of the young and thoughtless of the fair sex, this Taleof Truth is designed; and I could wish my fair readers to consider it as notmerely the effusion of Fancy, but as a reality. The circumstances on whichI have founded this novel were related to me some little time since by anold lady who had personally known Charlotte, though she concealed thereal names of the characters, and likewise the place where the unfortunatescenes were acted: yet as it was impossible to offer a relation to the publicin such an imperfect state, I have thrown over the whole a slight veil of...
