| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 169 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Early American women writers |
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Early American women writers.
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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 |
| Analysis |
Fiction in English American writers, 1776-1830 - Texts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxii-xxiii) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Man-woman relationships -- Connecticut -- Fiction
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FICTION -- General.
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Man-woman relationships
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Connecticut
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davidson, Cathy N., 1949-
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| LC no. |
86018001 |
| ISBN |
9780199770274 |
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0199770271 |
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1283097923 |
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9781283097925 |
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9786613097927 |
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6613097926 |
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0199840385 |
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9780199840380 |
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