Susanna Haswell Rowson

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SHR , who was active during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, has some claim to be regarded as both an English and an American writer, though her American allegiance came to predominate with time. Many of her works are now very rare, especially the English editions. She was professional in her outlook and conscious of writing as a woman, given to self-referential prefaces and taking every opportunity to discuss and praise her fellow, British, women writers. As well as eight novels, her output included fictional sketches, seven theatrical works, poems, social commentary, textbooks, and conduct literature. Biographer Dorothy Weil comments that she writes both for and about women, addressing themes important to the situation, education, and rights of women.
Weil, Dorothy. In Defense of Women: Susanna Rowson (1762-1824). Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976.
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Title-page of New York edition, 1814, of "Charlotte Temple, A Tale of Truth" by Susanna Haswell Rowson, first published in 1791. An oval portrait represents Charlotte, not Rowson. Up the left side runs a signature: "Mary L. Hyde.".
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Milestones

By 15 February 1762
Susanna Haswell (later Rowson) was born at Portsmouth in Hampshire, an only child.
Rowson, Susanna Haswell. “Introduction; Susanna Haswell Rowson: A Brief Chronology”. Reuben and Rachel, edited by Joseph F. Bartolomeo, Broadview, 2009, pp. 8 - 34.
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“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
January 1791
SHR published with the Minerva Press the runaway best-seller Charlotte, A Tale of Truth, which is better known by its later title of Charlotte Temple; this time she published without her name.
Garside, Peter, James Raven, and Rainer Schöwerling, editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000.
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1822
SHR 's final publication, at Boston two years before her death, was Biblical Dialogues between a Father and his Family in two volumes, a book of family instruction in the Bible.
Neither the British Library nor the Bodleian Library holds a copy.
Library of Congress Online Catalog.
2 March 1824
SHR died in Boston, Massachusetts.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Biography

Birth and Family: Two Countries

By 15 February 1762
Susanna Haswell (later Rowson) was born at Portsmouth in Hampshire, an only child.
Rowson, Susanna Haswell. “Introduction; Susanna Haswell Rowson: A Brief Chronology”. Reuben and Rachel, edited by Joseph F. Bartolomeo, Broadview, 2009, pp. 8 - 34.
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“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.