The Power of Sympathy and the CoquettePenguin, 01.11.1996 - 352 Seiten Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown’s The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster’s The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-century preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers of the young country’s morality. |
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... published in 1807 . Hannah Webster Foster ( 1758-1840 ) wrote a great deal during her lifetime , but she remains best known for having published The Coquette , a novel of enduring fame from her day to our own . She was born in Salisbury ...
... published in 1807 . Hannah Webster Foster ( 1758-1840 ) wrote a great deal during her lifetime , but she remains best known for having published The Coquette , a novel of enduring fame from her day to our own . She was born in Salisbury ...
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... published John Leacock's First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times , 1774-1775 ( 1987 ) , a critical edition of an American revolutionary - era sa- tire , and Only for the Eyes of a Friend : The Poems of Annis Boudinot Stockton ...
... published John Leacock's First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times , 1774-1775 ( 1987 ) , a critical edition of an American revolutionary - era sa- tire , and Only for the Eyes of a Friend : The Poems of Annis Boudinot Stockton ...
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... Hannah Webster Foster. THE POWER OF SYMPATHY WILLIAM HILL BROWN and THE COQUETTE HANNAH WEBSTER FOSTER WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY CARLA MULFORD PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books USA.
... Hannah Webster Foster. THE POWER OF SYMPATHY WILLIAM HILL BROWN and THE COQUETTE HANNAH WEBSTER FOSTER WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY CARLA MULFORD PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books USA.
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... published in the United States of America by Isaiah Thomas 1789 The Coquette first published in the United States of America by Samuel Etheridge for E. Larkin 1797 This edition with an introduction and notes by Carla Mulford published ...
... published in the United States of America by Isaiah Thomas 1789 The Coquette first published in the United States of America by Samuel Etheridge for E. Larkin 1797 This edition with an introduction and notes by Carla Mulford published ...
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Editors Note | v |
Introduction | ix |
Suggestions for Further Reading | liii |
A Note on the Texts | lix |
OR THE TRIUMPH OF NATURE FOUNDED IN TRUTH | 1 |
THE COQUETTE OR THE HISTORY OF ELIZA WHARTON A NOVEL FOUNDED ON FACT | 105 |
Explanatory Notes | 243 |
From Advice from a Lady of Quality to Her Children | 271 |
Letter from Annis Boudinot Stockton to Julia Stockton Rush on Mary Wollstonecrafts A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792 | 285 |
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acquaintance ADIEU advice affection agreeable Alexander Pope American amiable amusement Annis Boudinot Stockton appeared attention BELLEVIEW Benjamin Rush BOSTON Boyer called character charms colonies conduct conversation Coquette daugh daughter dear death distress duty endeavor engaged enjoyment entertainment esteem expected feel female fiction friendship hand Hannah Webster Foster happiness HARRINGTON to WORTHY Harriot HARTFORD heart Holmes honor hope idea Jeremy Belknap Joel Barlow Joseph Addison JULIA GRANBY lady leave LETTER libertine LUCY FREEMAN LUCY SUMNER madam Major Sanford mamma marriage married melancholy mind Miss ELIZA WHARTON Miss Wharton moral MYRA never NEW-HAVEN novel Ophelia passion person PETER SANFORD pleased pleasure poem Power of Sympathy readers reading received retired Richman romances scenes seducer sensibility sentiments sincere social society soon sorrow soul taste tears thought told virtue virtuous William Hill Brown wish woman women write young