The 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 marry her. When, in her mid-30s, Wharton finds herself suddenly abandoned when both men marry other women, she willfully enters into an adulterous relationship with Sanford and becomes pregnant. Alone and dejected, she dies in childbirth at a roadside inn. Eliza Wharton, whose real-life counterpart was distantly related to Hannah Foster's husband, was one of the first women in American fiction to emerge as a real person facing a dilemma in her life. In her Introduction, Davidson discusses the parallels between Elizabeth Whitman and the fictional Eliza Wharton. She shows the limitations placed on women in the 18th century and the attempts of one woman to rebel against those limitations.
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a conduct book for women。书信在小说体裁的最开始作为一个过渡带领读者进入角色的内心世界，而到现在这样书信体类小说却是十分新奇呢。
评分Based on the famous Boston murder of Elizabeth Whiteman in 1788. Rather than using a narrative, the story was told in a epistolary form. Interesting. Personally, I feel the insignificent of words, language, even behaviors. Everything is isolated in terms of apprehension. Before Eliza dead, she asked Must I die alone? Shall I never see you more.
评分a conduct book for women。书信在小说体裁的最开始作为一个过渡带领读者进入角色的内心世界，而到现在这样书信体类小说却是十分新奇呢。
评分Fallen woman theme
评分Based on the famous Boston murder of Elizabeth Whiteman in 1788. Rather than using a narrative, the story was told in a epistolary form. Interesting. Personally, I feel the insignificent of words, language, even behaviors. Everything is isolated in terms of apprehension. Before Eliza dead, she asked Must I die alone? Shall I never see you more.
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