The coquette / Hannah Webster Foster ; edited with an introduction by Cathy N. Davidson.
Material type: TextSeries: Early American women writersPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 169 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780199770274
- 0199770271
- 1283097923
- 9781283097925
- 9786613097927
- 6613097926
- 0199840385
- 9780199840380
- 813/.2 22
- PS744.F7 C6 1986eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xxii-xxiii).
Print version record.
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.
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