In Charlotte Temple, Susanna Rowson embarked on a mission to teach a lesson to young girls living in an era long ago forgotten. A lesson about love, propriety, and how easily a girl can fall from grace. Although we live in a completely different society today, her principles are sound, and the situations she gives warning of are, to an extent, still the same 200 years later. Several times Rowson directed a few words at the …showed first 75 words of 1270 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1270 total…not, it obviously reflects Susanna Rowson's opinions, such as her personal views on romance, the proper basis for a relationship, and the duties of a lady, regarding both her parents and her spouse. This was a time when the line between propriety and disgrace was very well marked, and to even stray near it constituted a fall from grace. Rowson brought her point across very successfully, though in a rather unconventional way for the time.