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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.
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]
Edith Newbold Wharton (/ ˈ hw ɔːr t ən /; née Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.
Wharton's first published novella was The Touchstone, set in old New York, like many of her stories. It follows Stephen Glennard, who is suddenly impoverished and can't marry his beautiful ...
Another important writer was Hannah Webster Foster, who wrote the popular The Coquette: Or, the History of Eliza Wharton, published in 1797. [92] The story about a woman who is seduced and later abandoned, The Coquette has been praised for its demonstration of the era's contradictory ideas of womanhood.
Wharton Center on Monday announced its Broadway Series for 2024-25 and much of the lineup could be referred to as “Wharton’s Greatest Hits.” Four of the seven shows were big hits in previous ...
Edith Wharton's novella Bunner Sisters is set in 19th century New York, following the lives of sisters Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner. The sisters led quiet lives, running their small inconspicuous shop outside of Stuyvesant Square, selling sewing materials, millinery supplies, and mending garments for their customers.
Wharton: How Two B-Schools Played The Pandemic appeared first on Poets&Quants. MBA admissions decisions cost Harvard over $16 million in lost tuition revenue this year, while Wharton gained $5 ...