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| | Hannah Foster |
 | | Hannah Webster Foster was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts in 1758, the daughter of Grant Webster, a well-to-do Boston merchant and moneylender, and of Hannah Wainwright Webster. |
 | | After her mother's death in 1762, Hannah was sent to a boarding school for several years, an experience that formed the basis of her second novel, also written at 10 Academy Hill Road, The Boarding School, or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Students, published in 1799. |
 | | The great wealth of the Webster family is evidenced by an advertisement her father ran in "The Massachusetts Sun" in 1771, offering a wide assortment of goods and property for sale, including produce, ship supplies, several Boston tenements, a country estate ten miles outside of the city, and a Suffolk County lead mine. |
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