In , Foster published her second book, The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils, a book on female education in early America, but it was nowhere near as popular as The Coquette. Foster’s husband died in , at which time she moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to live with her daughter. Hannah Webster Foster's novel The Coquette is an excellent example of women's literature written during a period of American history in which man typically dictated societal /5(79). · Foster, Hannah Webster, Title: The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton A Novel: Founded on Fact Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature: Subject: Whitman, Elizabeth, -- Fiction Category: Text: EBook-No. Release Date: May 1, Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA. DownloadsAuthor: Foster, Hannah Webster,
Il en découle une série de révisions et d'élisions qui viennent protéger la réputation de madame Foster, tout en rendant l'héroïne du roman beaucoup plus sympathique. Keywords: coquette, Hannah Webster Foster, crime, vice, epistolary, execution sermon, criminal broadside Mots clés: coquette, Hannah Webster Foster, crime, vice. The Coquette, written by Hannah Webster Foster in , chronicles the life of an affluent woman in the 18th century. There are a few themes that are presented throughout the whole novel: correspondence, sexual freedom, and ideal womanhood. Hannah Webster Foster. Average rating: · 2, ratings · reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors. The Coquette. by. Hannah Webster Foster, Cathy N. Davidson (Editor) avg rating — 2, ratings — published — 63 editions. Want to Read. saving.
The Coquette or, The History of Eliza Wharton is an epistolary novel by Hannah Webster Foster. It was published anonymously in , and did not appear under the author's real name until , 16 years after Foster's death. It was one of the best-selling novels of its time and was reprinted eight times between and Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette is a American epistolary seduction novel and a roman à clef about the death of Elizabeth Whitman (fictionally re-christened Eliza Wharton), a woman of the Connecticut gentry who is impregnated by a married man and who then dies in a tavern after giving birth to his stillborn child. (A fun fact: Whitman's seducer may have been the grandson of the Great Awakening divine, Jonathan Edwards—a possibility that Foster leaves unmentioned.). In , Foster published her second book, The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils, a book on female education in early America, but it was nowhere near as popular as The Coquette. Foster’s husband died in , at which time she moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to live with her daughter.
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