SUSANNA HASWELL ROWSON, Trials of the Human Heart, A Novel, Philadelphia: Wrigley and Berriman, 1795 [facsimile]

SUSANNA HASWELL ROWSON, Trials of the Human Heart, A Novel, Philadelphia: Wrigley and Berriman, 1795

In the preface to this novel, Rowson responds to Cobbett’s denunciation of her politics, calling him a “loathsome reptile” who “has lately crawled over [her] volumes” and “has never penetrated beyond the title-page of any.” She then gives an extended description of her life in which she explains her loyalty to the new American government.

Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society