Early American Women Writers Format:Paperback ISBN-13: 9780152023805

ISBN-13: 9780152023805

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Early American Women Writers Format:Paperback ISBN-13: 9780152023805The 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