Susanna Rowson, nata Haswell (1762—Martii 1824), fuit scriptrix mythistoriarum, poeta, scriptrix ludorum scaenicorum, scriptrix scriptorum religiosorum, actrix scaenica, et educator Britannico-Americana. Ea insigniter fuit auctor mythistoriae Charlotte Temple, libri in litteris Americanis optime veniti populoque gratissimi donec Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriettae Beecher Stowe anno 1852 prolata esset. . . .

Susanna Rowson.
Rowson's poems, published in 1804 by Gilbert & Dean, Boston
Susanna Rowson later in life

Opera recensere

Fictio recensere

  • Victoria (1786)
  • The Inquisitor (1788)
  • Mary, or, The Test of Honour (1789)
  • Charlotte: a Tale of Truth (1790; Charlotte Temple post tertiam editionem Americanam, 1797)
  • Mentoria (1791)
  • Rebecca, or, The Fille de Chambre (1792)
  • Trials of the Human Heart (1795)
  • Reuben and Rachel (1798)
  • Sarah (1813)
  • Charlotte's Daughter, or, The Three Orphans

Ludi scaenici recensere

  • Slaves of Algiers; or, A Struggle for Freedom (1794)[1]
  • The Female Patriot (1795)[1]
  • The Volunteers (1795)[1]
  • Americans in England (1796; Columbian Daughters in productione anni 1800)
  • The American Tar (1796)
  • Hearts of Oak (1811)

Versus recensere

  • Poems of Various Subjects (1788)
  • A Trip to Parnassus (1788)
  • The Standard of Liberty (1795)
  • Miscellaneous Poems (1811)

Miscellanea recensere

  • An Abridgement of Universal Geography (1805)
  • A Spelling Dictionary (1807)
  • A Present for Young Ladies (1811)
  • Youth's First Step in Geography (1811)
  • Biblical Dialogues between a Father and His Family (1822)
  • Exercises in History, Chronology, and Biography, in Question and Answer (1822)

Adnotationes recensere

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Emily Stipes Watts, The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945 (Austin Texiae: University of Texas Press, 1978, ISBN 0-292-76450-2), 57.

Bibliographia recensere

  • Davidson, Cathy N., ed. 1987. Charlotte Temple: Susanna Rowson. Oxoniae: Oxford University Press.
  • Fergenson, Laraine. Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762–1824). In Heath Anthology of American Literature.
  • Homestead, Melissa J., et Camryn Hansen. 2010. Susanna Rowson's Transatlantic Career. Early American Literature 45(3):619–654.
  • Kornfeld, Eve. 1983. Women in Post-Revolutionary American Culture: Susanna Haswell Rowson's American Career, 1793–1824. Journal of American Culture 6(4):56–62.
  • Nason, Elias. 1870. A Memoir of Mrs. Susanna Rowson. Albaniae Novi Eboraci: J. Munsell.
  • Parker, Patricia L. 1986. Susanna Rowson. Bostoniae: Twayne Publishers.
  • Rust, Marion. 2008. Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women. University of North Carolina Press.
  • Vinson, James, ed. 1979. Great Writers of the English Language: Novelists and Prose Writers. Novi Eboraci: St. Martin's Press.

Nexus externi recensere

 

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