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The Coquette or, The History of Eliza Wharton is an epistolary novel by Hannah Webster Foster. It was published anonymously in 1797, and did not appear under the author's real name until 1856, 16 years after Foster's death.
Foster is best known for her epistolary novel The Coquette. She published both of her novels as "A Lady of Massachusetts". She published both of her novels as "A Lady of Massachusetts". The Boarding School focuses on a fictitious school called Harmony Grove as another school year ends and a group of students is completing their course of study ...
Hannah Webster Foster (September 10, 1758/59 – April 17, 1840) [1] was an American novelist.. Her epistolary novel, The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton, was published anonymously in 1797. [2]
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The Reform'd Coquet, alternately titled The Memoirs of Amoranda, is a novella, about 70 pages long, written by Mary Davys and published in 1724. It is an important work in helping to establish the form of the novel: according to feminist critic and anthologist Paula R. Backscheider, The Reform'd Coquet "shows the influence of Restoration and eighteenth-century marriage comedies; It was ...
The culmination of the coquette look as we see it now can be traced back to an amalgam of styles, beginning, perhaps, with Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel about a man who preys on a 12 ...
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