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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.
		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.
		Hannah Webster Foster, Brighton's pioneer novelist, died in Montreal in 1840, at age 81.
	www.bahistory.org /HistoryFoster.html (1181 words)

	UUWHS - Research: THE LITERARY FOSTER SISTERS, AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS TO MONTREAL IN THE 1830s
		The four were the daughters of Hannah Webster Foster, author of The Coquette, one of the earliest American novels, and the Reverend John Foster, a Unitarian theologian in Boston.
		Hannah, the eldest, was born in Boston in 1790, Elizabeth in 1794, and Harriett in 1796.
		Miss Foster, spinster, who lived on Craig Street, was a communicant of the Unitarian church in 1848 and 1852, then is listed as having moved to the US when she married the author and lecturer, the Rev. Henry Giles, who had been Unitarian minister in Montreal for six months in 1842.
	www.uuwhs.org /foster.php (3520 words)

	Hannah Webster Foster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hannah Webster Foster (September 10, 1758–1840) was an American novelist.
		Born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, her epistolary novel, The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton was published anonymously in 1797.
		The daughter of a wealthy merchant, it is likely that Foster (née Webster) attended an academy for women like the one she described in The Boarding School; certainly, the literary allusions and historical facts that populate her work indicate an outstanding education.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hannah_Webster_Foster (262 words)

	Foster, Hannah Webster - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		FOSTER, HANNAH WEBSTER [Foster, Hannah Webster] 1759-1840, American novelist, b.
		It was based on the story (well known at the time) of Elizabeth Whitman, a well-educated 37 year-old unmarried woman who died in childbirth at an inn.
		Foster retold the story with sympathy, showing how American society unduly circumscribed the lives of women.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-foster-h1.html (258 words)

	Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840)
		The Preceptress in Foster's The Boarding School explains the prevailing objections: "'Novels, are the favorite and the most dangerous kind of reading, now adopted by the generality of young ladies.
		Their romantic pictures of love, beauty, and magnificence, fill the imagination with ideas which lead to impure desires, a vanity of exterior charms, and a fondness for show and dissipation, by no means consistent with that simplicity, modesty, and chastity, which should be the constant inmates of the female breast.
		While voicing opposition to the novel in general, Foster and other novelists characterized the reading of their own works, which were "founded on fact," as warnings, to keep young women from peril.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/foster.html (1306 words)

	Hannah Foster
		FOSTER, Hannah, author, born in 1759; died in Montreal, Canada, in 1840.
		She was a daughter of Grant Webster, of Boston, and married John Foster, a minister in Brighton, Mass°, from 1784 till 1827.
		Foster published "The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton," founded on fact (2d ed., with a preface by Mrs.
	www.famousamericans.net /hannahfoster (271 words)

	PAL: Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Baker, Dorothy Z. "'Detested Be the Epithet!': Definition, Maxim, and the Language of Social Dicta in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette.
		Foster, Gwendolyn A. "The Dialogic Margins of Conduct Fiction: Hannah Webster Foster's The Boarding School.
		Foster's Coquette and the Decline of the Brotherly Watch.' Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 16 (1986): 211-24.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap2/foster.html (609 words)

	Hannah Webster Foster
		Baker, Dorothy Z. "'Detested Be the Epithet!': Definition, Maxim, and the Language of Social Dicta in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette." Essays in Literature 23.1 (Spring 1996): 58-68.
		Pettengill, Clarie C. "Sisterhood in a Separate Sphere: Female Friendship in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette and The Boarding School." Early American Literature 27.3 (1992): 185-203.
		Hannah Webster Foster and the Early American Novel." American Literature 4 (1932): 306-08.
	www.d.umn.edu /~sadams/Authors/Foster.htm (596 words)

	Hannah Webster Foster Croquette Essays -- Themes of Hannah Webster Foster’s The Croquette
		Hannah Webster Foster Croquette Essays -- Themes of Hannah Webster Foster’s The Croquette
		Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette, published in 1797, has long been regarded as a sentimental novel with little literary quality.
		Though The Coquette was a best seller at publication and remained in print for most of the 19th century, critics gave it little attention other than to ridicule the novel.
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	TROPING THE BODY / FOSTER
		Foster analyzes the work of such women authors as Emily Post, Christine de Pizan, Hannah Webster Foster, Emily Brontë, Frances E. Harper, and Martha Stewart and such women filmmakers as Lois Weber and Kasi Lemmons.
		Foster revisits the sources of current beliefs concerning the history of women, women’s writing, and conduct that was once considered too mundane or “natural” for scholarly discussion.
		Foster deals with many neglected texts and uses a variety of contemporary theorists: Bakhtin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Fucault, and the new school of performative feminism.
	www.siu.edu /~siupress/news_release/foster_news.htm (208 words)

	Troping The Body (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gwendolyn Audrey Foster analyzes the work of such women authors as Emily Post, Christine de Pizan, Hannah Webster Foster, Emily Brontë, Frances E.W. Harper, and Martha Stewart as well as such women filmmakers as Lois Weber and Kasi Lemmons.
		"Specifically," Foster notes, "I was interested in the possibility of locating power and agency in thevoices of popular etiquette writers." Her investigation led her to analyze etiquette and conduct literature from the Middle Ages to the present.
		Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is an associate professor of Film Studies and Cultural Studies in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
	eng-wdixon.unl.edu /troping.html (309 words)

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		His legacy is abundant in modern pop culture, from the acclaim of his writing to the naming of the Baltimore Ravens NFL football team.
		Hannah Webster Foster (September 10, 1758 - 1840) was an American novelist.
		Born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, she wrote Coquette; or The History of Eliza Wharton in 1797.
	www.customtermpapers.org /customessay/americanliterature (2617 words)

	Colonial Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The author of this book, Hannah Foster, was a successful novelist when she wrote the Boarding School.
		In order to propagate her ideas, Foster wrote this novel to which she appended a series of letters that expands upon her ideals of female education.
		Thus, she did Foster did not cross the boundaries of polite femininity, and honed her ability and that of her students to convey their ideas with charm rather than strength and logic.
	www.clements.umich.edu /womened/ColonialHeritage.html (1075 words)

	The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette by William Hill Brown, Hannah Webster Foster, Carla Mulford, Carla Mulford ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A novel about the dangers of succumbing to sexual temptations and the rewards of resistance, it was meant to promote women's moral rectitude, and the letters through which the story is told are filled with advice on the proper relationships between the sexes.
		Like The Power of Sympathy, Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette is concerned with womanly virtue.
		Eliza Wharton is eager to enjoy a bit of freedom before settling down to domestic life and begins a flirtation with the handsome, rakish Sanford.
	www.allbookstores.com /book/0140434682 (280 words)

	Chris Clark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Foster often presents the reader with traditional literary devices such as death, virtue, and family values, that would seem to be didactic, but throughout the novel, these devices are subverted in order to convey an altogether different message.
		Foster is punishing the value system for trapping women and she is calling for a change.
		Richman’s baby die, Foster once again tries to shatter the “perfect world” image of the Republican value system.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/c/k/ckc132/coquette.htm (1434 words)

	AllRefer.com - Hannah Webster Foster (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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	TROPING THE BODY \| Foster
		Audrey Foster analyzes the work of such women authors as Emily Post, Christine de Pizan, Hannah Webster Foster, Emily Brontë, Frances E. Harper, and Martha Stewart as well as such women filmmakers as Lois Weber and Kasi Lemmons.
		“Specifically,” Foster notes, “I was interested in the possibility of locating power and agency in the voices of popular etiquette writers.” Her investigation led her to analyze etiquette and conduct literature from the Middle Ages to the present.
		Even though women writers have been actively writing conduct and etiquette texts since the medieval period, few critical examinations of such literature exist in the fields of cultural studies and literary criticism.
	www.siu.edu /~siupress/titles/s00_titles/foster_troping.htm (297 words)

	OhioLINK ETD: Desiderio, Jennifer
		While Murray performs a type of authorial espionage on her readers, I describe in my second chapter how Hannah Webster Foster in The Boarding School (1798) instructs her readers in a model of authorship that enables them to become monitorial authors themselves.
		Finally, I conclude by gesturing towards the affinities between the republican and antebellum authors.
		Judith Sargent Murray; Charles Brockden Brown; Susanna Rowson; Hannah Webster Foster
	www.ohiolink.edu /etd/view.cgi?osu1092501135 (402 words)

	Hannah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A personal name, also spelt Hanna, deriving from the Hebrew language, meaning grace, grace of God, favour, and/or charm, of which the following forms are found:
		A number of people with the surname Hannah/Hanna.
		A number of places either named Hannah or that are homophones of Hannah:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hannah (217 words)

	Definition Of Literature Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Essays in Literature - "Detested be the epithet!": definition, maxim, and the language of social dicta in Hannah Webster Foster's 'The Coquette.'
		March 22, 1996 -- There is critical agreement that Hannah Webster Fosterandapos;s The Coquette chronicles Eliza Whartonandapos;s attempts towards self-definition in...
		It reviews QM research organized along five main themes: the definition of quality management, the definition of product quality, the impact of quality management on firm performance, quality management in the context management theory and the implementation of quality management.
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	Michigan State University Press -The Seduction Novel of the Early Nation - Bontatibus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In this new study, Donna Bontatibus explores the roots of the seduction novel in early America and uses it to mirror societal structures in the fledgling nation.
		The novels of Susanna Rowson, Tabitha Tenney, Hannah Webster Foster, and Judith Sargent Murray and their use of the seduction plot reveal a complex set of social and political problems experienced by middle-class women of the early nation.
		Using these novels, Bontatibus shows a strong link between women's status in America and the American Revolution's failure to free women from neo-colonialist oppression.
	www.msu.edu /unit/msupress/literary/seduction.html (199 words)

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		William Hill Brown, The Power of Sympathy, and Hannah Webster Foster, The Coquette
		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
	www.mnstate.edu /seabooks/penguin.htm (516 words)

	The Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster - Free eBook
		The Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster - Free eBook
		They had been set in family connection, intimate by kin, intimate in earliest life by every outward tie, and especially intimate by the subtile affinities of their spiritual natures.
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		She is the author of Mythic Masks in Self-Reflexive Poetry (1986), Poetics in the Poem (1996), and The Silent and Soft Communion: The Spiritual Narratives of Sarah Pierpont Edwards and Sarah Prince Gill (2005).
		She has also written many essays on the work of Cotton Mather, Hannah Webster Foster, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Paul LeJeune and Marie de l'Incarnation, and translated the work of Pierre Reverdy, Paul LeJeune, and Marina Tsvetaeva.
		Baker is currently completing a book entitled Magnalia Dei/Terribilia Dei: Cotton Mather and America's Gothic Fiction.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /English/EnglishDept/Dorothy_baker.html (148 words)

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