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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759-1840.

Contributor:

Davidson, Cathy N., 1949-

Series:

Early American Women Writers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Fiction.

Women.

Whitman, Elizabeth, 1752-1788--Fiction.

Whitman, Elizabeth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

Language Note:

English

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Bibliography: p. [xxii]-xxiii.

ISBN:

0-19-984038-5

1-283-09792-3

9786613097927

0-19-977027-1

OCLC:

712015976