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Lucy Temple is a novel by American author Susanna Rowson . It was first published posthumously (together with a memoir of the author by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp) in 1828 under the title Charlotte's Daughter, or, The Three Orphans. It was a sequel to Rowson's extremely popular novel Charlotte Temple . Lucy Temple is the daughter of Charlotte Temple, the main character in the first novel. [1]

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References

  1. Henderson, Desirée (2007). "Illegitimate Children and Bastard Sequels: The Case of Susanna Rowson's Lucy Temple". Legacy. 24 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1353/leg.2007.0011. JSTOR   25679589. S2CID   161338787.