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Early American Women Writers
by Early American Women Writers
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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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- Oxford University Press, Brand
- Feb 19, 1987 Pub Date:
- 9780195042399 ISBN-13:
- 0195042395 ISBN-10:
- 192 Pages
- English Language
- 7.37 in * 6.11 in * 0.51 in Dimensions:
- 0 lb Weight:
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