Lucy Temple is a novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 by Susanna Rowson

Susanna Rowson

Susanna Rowson, née Haswell was a British-American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, stage actress and educator....

. It was first published posthumously (together with a memoir of the author by Samuel L. Knapp) in 1828 under the title Charlotte's Daughter, or, The Three Orphans.

It was a sequel to Rowson's extremely popular novel Charlotte Temple

Charlotte Temple

Charlotte Temple is a novel by Susanna Rowson. It was first published in England in 1791 under the title Charlotte, A Tale of Truth. The first American edition was published in 1794 and the novel became a bestseller. It has gone through over 200 American editions.Charlotte Temple is the name of...

. Lucy Temple is the daughter of Charlotte Temple, the main character in the first novel.

The two books are published together by Penguin Classics (ISBN 0-14-039080-4)