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"The Coquette," one of the two "best-selling" American novels of the 18th century, tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Conneticut. 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 a relationship with Sanford and becomes pregnant. Alone and dejected, she dies in childbirth at a roadside inn.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Coquette
• Author: Hannah Webster Foster
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780195042399
• ISBN: 0195042395
• ID: 04512404
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 208 g
• Dimensions: 138 × 203 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. February 1987

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