Hannah Webster Foster

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The Coquette or: The History of Eliza Wharton (Boston: 1855).

Long admired as one of the most gifted early American sentimental novelists, Hannah Webster Foster began her writing career crafting political articles for the local Boston newspapers.  She turned to writing fiction in her forties, publishing her first novel, The Coquette, in 1797. The volume did not carry her name, nor did the publication of The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to her Pupils in 1798.  Both were credited simply to “A Lady of Massachusetts.”  Foster returned to journalism after the publication of these two novels.

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