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Hannah Webster Foster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hannah Webster Foster (September 10, 1758 – April 17, 1840) was an American novelist. Her epistolary novel, The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton , was published anonymously in 1797. Altho...
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Hannah Webster Foster Criticism and Essays ... Foster, Hannah Webster - Introduction ... Hannah Webster Foster 1758-1840...
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Baker, Dorothy Z. “‘Detested Be the Epithet!’: Definition, Maxim, and the Language of Social Dicta in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette.” Essays in English Literature 23, No. 1 (Spring 1996): 58-68.
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Here, in 1797, Hannah Webster Foster, the wife of Brighton's only minister, the Reverend John Foster, wrote a pioneer American novel entitled, The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton. ... Hannah Webster Foster was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts in 1758, the daughter of Grant Webster, a well-to-do Boston merchant...
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Especially helpful in this regard is Sharon M. Harris's "Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette: Critiquing Franklin's America" in Redefining the Political Novel: American Women Writers, 1797-1901 (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1995). (4) Small group discussions enable students to clarify questions about...
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Encyclopedia article about Foster, Hannah Webster. Information about Foster, Hannah Webster in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759–1840, American novelist, b. Boston. She was one of the earliest American novelists and her epistolary novel,
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Hannah Webster Foster summary with 295 pages of encyclopedia entries, essays, summaries, research information, and more. ... Biography of Hannah Webster Foster; 896 words, approx. 3 pages;
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Little is known of either Hannah Webster Foster's childhood or education, but the numerous historical and literary allusions in her books suggest she was well-educated for her time and sex. Foster is best known for her novel The Coquette;
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Reading Note: probably the greatest frustration in reading this novel is the lack of line breaks and quotation marks to set off dialog. What I do as I read in insert slash marks to set ... · Why might Foster have chosen to write the novel in the form of letters? What advantages does this form have? What disadvantages?
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The Coquette - The History of Eliza Wharton (Paperback) ... Author: Webster Foster Hannah Webster Foster ... Eliza is a tease who inevitably ruins her life with her actions. Eliza is engaged to a rich old man who dies while in her care. She is now single and has no intention of ever getting married. She is torn between a...
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