The coquette
Subtitle: or, The history of Eliza Wharton. Reproduced from the original edition of 1797
By: with an introd. by Herbert Ross Brown.
Series: The Facsimile Text Society. Publication; no. 46
Publisher: Published for the Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press
Published: 1939
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Whitman, Elizabeth, 1752-1788 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A fictionalized account of the much-publicized death of a socially elite Connecticut woman after giving birth to a stillborn, illegitimate child at a roadside tavern, Foster's novel highlights the social conditions that lead to the downfall of an otherwise well-educated and socially adept woman. --Wikipedia.com.