The coquette /
Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759-1840.
The coquette / Hannah Webster Foster ; edited with an introduction by Cathy N. Davidson. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1986. - 1 online resource (xxiii, 169 pages) : illustrations - Early American women writers . - Early American women writers. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxii-xxiii).
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Selected Bibliography; Chronology of Hannah Webster Foster; THE COQUETTE; OR, THE HISTORY OF ELIZA WHARTON; Facsimile of the title page from the first edition
The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. Written as a series of letters--between the heroine and her friends and lovers--it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly suits her. Eliza Wharton (as Whitman is called in the novel) wavers between Major Sanford, a charming but insincere man, and the Reverend Boyer, a bore who wants to marry her. When, in her mid-30s, Wharton finds herself suddenly abandoned when both men marry other women, she willfully enters into an adulterous.
English.
9780199770274 (electronic bk.) 0199770271 (electronic bk.) 1283097923 9781283097925 9786613097927 6613097926 0199840385 9780199840380
Man-woman relationships--Connecticut--Fiction.
Relations entre hommes et femmes--Connecticut--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION--General.
Man-woman relationships.
Connecticut.
Fiction in English American writers, 1776-1830 - Texts
Electronic books.
Fiction.
PS744.F7 / C6 1986eb
813/.2
The coquette / Hannah Webster Foster ; edited with an introduction by Cathy N. Davidson. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1986. - 1 online resource (xxiii, 169 pages) : illustrations - Early American women writers . - Early American women writers. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxii-xxiii).
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Selected Bibliography; Chronology of Hannah Webster Foster; THE COQUETTE; OR, THE HISTORY OF ELIZA WHARTON; Facsimile of the title page from the first edition
The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. Written as a series of letters--between the heroine and her friends and lovers--it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly suits her. Eliza Wharton (as Whitman is called in the novel) wavers between Major Sanford, a charming but insincere man, and the Reverend Boyer, a bore who wants to marry her. When, in her mid-30s, Wharton finds herself suddenly abandoned when both men marry other women, she willfully enters into an adulterous.
English.
9780199770274 (electronic bk.) 0199770271 (electronic bk.) 1283097923 9781283097925 9786613097927 6613097926 0199840385 9780199840380
Man-woman relationships--Connecticut--Fiction.
Relations entre hommes et femmes--Connecticut--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION--General.
Man-woman relationships.
Connecticut.
Fiction in English American writers, 1776-1830 - Texts
Electronic books.
Fiction.
PS744.F7 / C6 1986eb
813/.2