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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. It was one of the best-selling novels of its time and was reprinted eight times between 1824 and 1828. [1]
Her epistolary novel, The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton, was published anonymously in 1797. [2] Although it sold well in the 1790s, it was not until 1866 that her name appeared on the title page. In 1798, she published The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils, a commentary on female education in the United ...
Hannah Webster Foster (anonymously) – The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton; Friedrich Hölderlin – Hyperion, volume 1; Frances Margaretta Jacson (anonymously) – Disobedience; Jan Potocki – The Manuscript Found in Saragossa; Ann Radcliffe – The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents; Marquis de Sade – L'Histoire ...
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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 ...
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Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette: Or, the History of Eliza Wharton was published in 1797 and was extremely popular. [19] Told from Foster's point of view and based on the real life of Eliza Whitman, the novel is about a woman who is seduced and abandoned.