Charlotte Temple has received a great deal of recent critical attention. Steven Epley
has discerned a possible connection with Inkle and Yarico (which he classes as folk legend).
Epley, Steven. “Alienated, Betrayed, and Powerless: A Possible Connection between Charlotte Temple and the Legend of Inkle and Yarico”. Papers on Language and Literature, Vol.
These poems relate or embroider on a tale of interracial lovers whose original source is a bare paragraph in Richard Ligon
's History of Barbados, 1657.
Morton, Richard Everett. “Review of Frank Felsenstein, English Trader, Indian MaidEighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.