The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton
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- In Hannah Webster Foster
…Lady of Massachusetts,” she published The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton, a highly sentimental novel that enjoyed much success. Advertised as “founded on fact,” The Coquette was loosely based on an actual case of seduction, elopement, and tragic death. It both followed and—in some particulars, notably characterization—transcended the…
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