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The image of a pregnant and sickly young girl trudging through the snowy streets in Susanna Haswell Rowson’s Charlotte Temple (1791) resonated deeply in the eighteenth-century American imagination.
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Tuthill, M. (2016). A “Very Unfeeling World”: The Failure of Social Healing in Rowson’s America. In: Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59715-1_2
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