The A Novel: Founded on Fact Foster, Hannah Webster 1759-1840 creator text utu 2004 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton" by Hannah Webster Foster is an epistolary novel published in 1797. After being freed from an unwanted engagement, Eliza Wharton seeks independence and friendship. She finds herself torn between two suitors: a respectable but dull clergyman and an exciting aristocratic libertine. Her indecision and coquettish behavior set in motion a tragic chain of events. Based on a scandalous real-life case, this best-selling novel explores how social pressures lead to one woman's devastating downfall. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coquette Release date is 2004-05-01 Produced by Curtis Weyant, Erin Martin, Leah Moser and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Original publication data not identified Whitman, Elizabeth, 1752-1788 -- Fiction PS Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12431 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12431 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133309.0 12431