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Hannah Webster Foster (1758–1840)

Autore di The Coquette

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The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (1990) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni255 copie
Charlotte Temple [Norton Critical Edition] (2010) — Collaboratore — 42 copie

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Nome canonico
Foster, Hannah Webster
Altri nomi
Foster, Hannah Webster
Foster, Hannah W.
Data di nascita
1758-09-10
Data di morte
1840-04-17
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di residenza
Salisbury, Massachusetts, USA(birth)
Brighton, Massachusetts, USA
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Attività lavorative
novelist
journalist
author
writer
Breve biografia
Hannah Webster Foster was born in Salisbury, near Boston, Massachusetts, the eldest daughter of Grant Webster, a merchant, and his wife Hannah Wainwright. Her mother died when Hannah was only about age 4, and it's likely that she attended a school for girls like the one she later described in The Boarding School or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils (1798). The literary allusions and historical facts in her work suggest a good education. Hannah began writing political articles for Boston newspapers in the 1770s. In 1785, she married the Rev. John Foster and settled with him in Brighton, Mass., where the Rev. Foster served as a pastor. The couple had six children in ten years. After the birth of her last child, Hannah Webster Foster returned to newspaper writing and also published her first book, the popular epistolary novel The Coquette, or The History of Eliza Wharton (1797), which became a bestseller and was often reprinted in the 19th-century. It was re-issued several times in the 20th-century as well. It appeared anonymously, as by “A Lady of Massachusetts,” until 1866. After her husband died in 1829, Hannah moved to Montreal, Quebec, to be close to her two daughters, who were also popular novelists of the day, Eliza Lanesford Cushing and Harriet Vaughan Cheney.

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Maybe it's books like this that give a bad name to moral tales. I really liked the quaintness but I can see how some people might not. As much as the language isn't in fashion, and morals are declining in fashion, hormones, habits, and social goals haven't changed. And that's why I find it relevant. Nor, in my experience, have the natural reactions from such actions changed. We just tend to brush all of those emotions aside because some kinds of deep feeling are currently out of style. And I'm meandering again...… (altro)
 
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OutOfTheBestBooks | 8 altre recensioni | Sep 24, 2021 |
The dangers of sexual sin and improper conduct are the focus of the two early American novels contained in this volume. In The Power of Sympathy(1789), which, incidentally, is often mentioned as the first novel written by an American and published in the United States, the consequences of a long-ago seduction threaten the happiness of a man's daughter and son. The title character in The Coquette (1797) pays a steep price for listening to the honeyed words of a incorrigible rake. Like Charlotte Temple (1791), another novel of the same vintage, these two epistolary novels are wordy, didactic, and filled with crying, fainting, and fits of low spirits. Still, they are interesting for the light they shed on late eighteenth century mores.… (altro)
 
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akblanchard | 1 altra recensione | Apr 5, 2020 |
A historically significant, proto-feminist work of early American literature, it stands the test of time and relative obscurity.
 
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Utenti
649
Popolarità
#38,891
Voto
½ 3.5
Recensioni
11
ISBN
37
Lingue
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