"I foolishly thought, some few years since, that every sense of joy was buried in the graves of my dear partner and my son; but my Lucy, by her filial affection, soothed my soul to peace, and this dear Charlotte has twined herself round my heart, and opened such new scenes of delight to my view, that I almost forget I have ever been unhappy."
Charlotte: A Tale of Truth [Charlotte Temple]
Susanna Rowson, <u>Charlotte: A Tale of Truth</u> (London: Minerva Press, 1791). Republished in America: <u>Charlotte: A Tale of Truth</u> (Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1794). &lt;<a href="http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u826545">Link to UVA Special Collections</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=RowChar.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all">Link to UVA E-Text Center</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from U.Va. edition. Reading in <u>Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple</u>, ed. Ann Douglas (New York: Penguin, 1991).