Coquette

Name: Coquette
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ISBN: 9780195042399

ISBN-10: 0195042395

ISBN-13: 9780195042399

Edition: 1986

Authors: Hannah W. Foster, Cathy N. Davidson

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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 relationship with Sanford and becomes pregnant. Alone and dejected, she dies in childbirth at a…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/19/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 7.91" wide x 5.12" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English