The coquette /
The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. 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....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1986.
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| Series: | Early American women writers.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
| Summary: | The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. 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 an adulterous. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 169 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxii-xxiii). |
| ISBN: | 9780199770274 0199770271 1283097923 9781283097925 9786613097927 6613097926 |
