The Coquette and the Boarding School (1797-8)

ISBN-13: 9781551119984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 356 str.

Hannah Webster Foster

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One of the first American best sellers with an important but previously unavailable short novel by Foster.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Hannah Webster Foster: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The Coquette

The Boarding School

Appendix A: Elizabeth Whitman: The Model for Eliza Wharton

1. Whitman Death Notices
1. Notice of Elizabeth Whitman’s Death, Salem Mercury (Massachusetts), 29 July 1788
2. From the Independent Chronicle (Boston), 11 September 1788
3. From the Massachusetts Centinel (Boston), 20 September 1788
2. From Elizabeth Whitman’s Letters
1. To Joel Barlow (19 February 1779)
2. To Joel Barlow (17 October 1779)
3. To Ruth Barlow (25 November 1782)

Appendix B: Manuals on Letter-Writing and Letters of Advice on Marriage and Friendship

1. From The American Letter-Writer (1793)
2. From John Bennett, Letters to a Young Lady (1791)
3. From The American Spectator, or Matrimonial Preceptor (1797)
4. From Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, To His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq (1775)

Appendix C: The Education of Young Women

1. From Judith Sargent Murray, “On the Equality of the Sexes” (1790)
2. From Benjamin Rush, Thoughts upon Female Education (1787)
3. From Miss Ann Negus, “The Valedictory Oration.” Delivered at the commencement of the Young Ladies’Academy of Philadelphia (1794)

Appendix D: The Letters of Eliza Southgate Bowne

1. To Her Father (13 February 1798)
2. To Her Sister Octavia (7 February 1800)
3. To Moses Porter (October 1800)
4. To Her Mother (9 September 1802)

Appendix E: Mirth and Gaiety in the Early Republic

1. “Logick and Dancing, Compared” (September 1791)
2. From “To the Fair Sex” (10 March 1798)
3. Rules for the Providence Assembly (1792)
4. From “A Collection of Contra Dances Containing theNewest Figures” (1792)
5. From John Griffiths, A Collection of the Newest Cotillions (1794)
1. Cotillions
2. Instances of Ill Manners
6. “Homespun” (July-December 1791)

Works Cited and Select Bibliography