Hannah Webster Foster

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Hannah Webster Foster (September 10, 1758/59 – April 17, 1840) was an American novelist. Her epistolary novel, The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton, was published anonymously in 1797. Although it sold well in the 1790s, it was not until 1866 that her name appeared on the title page. In 1798, she published The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils, a commentary on female education in the United States.

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Hannah Webster Foster (September 10, 1758/59 – April 17, 1840) was an American novelist. Her epistolary novel, The Coque...

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The mind, after being confined at home for a while, sends the imagination abroad in quest of new treasures; and the body may as well accompany it,

He is a gay man, my dear, to say no more; and such are the companions we wish when we join a party avowedly formed for pleasure.

Can you, who have always been used to serenity and order in a family, to rational, refined, and improving conversation, relinquish them, and launch into the whirlpool of frivolity, where the correct taste and the delicate sensibility which you possess must constantly be wounded

The mind, after being confined at home for a while, sends the imagination abroad in quest of new treasures; and the body may as well accompany it,

He is a gay man, my dear, to say no more; and such are the companions we wish when we join a party avowedly formed for pleasure.