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Coquette, Or The History of Eliza Wharton

Hannah Webster Foster

Length
6 h 32 min
Chapters
13
Language
English
First published
1797

The classic early American epistolary novel about the seduction and ruin of a passionate young woman. Based on the true story of Elizabeth Whitman, whose lonesome death in childbirth in a Connecticut inn sparked widespread discussion and outrage, the novel went through many editions and innumerable printings in the century after its initial publication in 1797. (Summary by Jon Miller)

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