Coquette, Or The History of Eliza Wharton
by Hannah Webster Foster
About this book
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)
Chapters (13)
1Letters I through VII
2Letters VIII through XIV
3Letters XV through XXIII
4Letters XXIV through XXIX
5Letters XXX through XXXVII
6Letters XXXVIII through XL
7Letters XLI through XLIII
8Letters XLIV through L
9Letters LI through LVI
10Letters LVII through LXI
11Letters LXII through LXVI
12Letters LXVII through LXIX
13Letters LXX through LXXIV
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