Hannah Webster Foster

The Coquette

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Eliza Wharton, the daughter of a prominent clergyman, finds herself released from an unhappy marriage upon the death of her husband. But she is soon beset with persistent suitors who disrupt her newfound sense of independence and tempt her in ways that threaten not only her social standing, but her life. The Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster is a groundbreaking epistolary novel and important work of early American fiction.

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ISBN: 978-1-5132-6868-2
EAN: 9781513268682
Produktnummer: 35400034
Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 186 S.

Über den Autor

Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840) was an American novelist. Born the daughter of a successful merchant, Foster was raised in Salisbury, Massachusetts, where she obtained an unusually rigorous education for a woman of her time. She wrote political articles for newspapers published in Boston throughout the 1770s, and, after marrying the Rev. John Foster, moved to Brighton, Massachusetts. She published two novels anonymously, using the title A Lady of Massachusetts, and though her work was popular and financially successful, her identity remained a secret for years after her death. Following the 1829 death of her husband, Foster moved to Montreal to live with her daughters, and lived in Canada for the rest of her life. Two of her daughters, Harriet Vaughan Cheney and Eliza Lanesford Cushing, followed in their mother's footsteps to become popular writers of nineteenth century America. Foster is an underrecognized figure in American literature as well as a pioneering advocate for women's education.