The Power of Sympathy and the CoquettePenguin, 1996 M11 1 - 352 pages Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown’s The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster’s The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-century preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers of the young country’s morality. |
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Contents
Editors Note | v |
Introduction | ix |
Suggestions for Further Reading | liii |
A Note on the Texts | lix |
OR THE TRIUMPH OF NATURE FOUNDED IN TRUTH | 1 |
THE COQUETTE OR THE HISTORY OF ELIZA WHARTON A NOVEL FOUNDED ON FACT | 105 |
Explanatory Notes | 243 |
From Advice from a Lady of Quality to Her Children | 271 |
Letter from Annis Boudinot Stockton to Julia Stockton Rush on Mary Wollstonecrafts A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792 | 285 |
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The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette William Wells Brown,Hannah Webster Foster Limited preview - 1996 |
The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette William Wells Brown,Hannah Webster Foster Limited preview - 1996 |
The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette William Wells Brown,Hannah Webster Foster No preview available - 1996 |
Common terms and phrases
acquaintance ADIEU advice affection agreeable Alexander Pope American amiable amusement Annis Boudinot Stockton appeared attention BELLEVIEW Benjamin Rush BOSTON Boyer called character charms colonies conduct conversation Coquette daugh daughter dear death distress duty endeavor engaged enjoyment entertainment esteem expected feel female fiction friendship hand Hannah Webster Foster happiness HARRINGTON to WORTHY Harriot HARTFORD heart Holmes honor hope idea Jeremy Belknap Joel Barlow Joseph Addison JULIA GRANBY lady leave LETTER libertine LUCY FREEMAN LUCY SUMNER madam Major Sanford mamma marriage married melancholy mind Miss ELIZA WHARTON Miss Wharton moral MYRA never NEW-HAVEN novel Ophelia passion person PETER SANFORD pleased pleasure poem Power of Sympathy readers reading received retired Richman romances scenes seducer sensibility sentiments sincere social society soon sorrow soul taste tears thought told virtue virtuous William Hill Brown wish woman women write young