The coquette / Hannah Webster Foster ; edited with an introduction by Cathy N. Davidson.

By:

Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759-1840

Contributor(s):

Davidson, Cathy N, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Early American women writersPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 169 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780199770274
0199770271
1283097923
9781283097925
9786613097927
6613097926
0199840385
9780199840380

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Coquette.DDC classification:

813/.2 22

LOC classification:

PS744.F7 C6 1986eb

Online resources:

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Contents:

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

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages xxii-xxiii).

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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.

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