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Hannah (Webster) Foster, resident of Brighton, Mass. and of Montreal, was author of the melancholy, popular, and largely factual story The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton (the book went through thirty editions). Foster also authored The Boarding School; or Letters of a Preceptress.

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Works in the EAF Collection

The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils By a Lady of Massachusetts (1798) (Restricted)

The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton. A Novel, Founded on Fact. By a Lady of Massachussetts (1797) (Restricted)

Contemporary Biographies

From Oscar Fay Adams, A Dictionary of American Authors (1901)

From Samuel Austin Allibone, A Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1900)