Primary Works

The Coquette; or The History of Eliza Wharton. A Novel Founded on Fact, 1797 (hugely successful, this sentimental novel was published by "A Lady of Massachusetts;" Foster's name first appears in the 1866 reprint); The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to her Pupils, 1798.

Selected Bibliography 1980-Present

Fleischmann, Fritz. "Concealed Lessons: Foster's Coquette and Brockden Brown's 'Lesson on Concealment.'" in Schmidt, Klaus H. and Fritz Fleischma. eds. Early America Re-Explored: New Readings in Colonial, Early National, and Antebellum Culture. NY: Peter Lang, 2000. 

Fluck, Winfried. "Reading Early American Fiction." in Castillo, Susan, and Ivy Schweitzer. eds. A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll and Wai Chee Dimock. "Domesticating Virtue: Coquettes and Revolutionaries in Young America." in Elliott, Michael A. and Claudia Stokes. eds. American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader. NY: New York UP, 2003.

Trudeau, Lawrence J. ed. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Volume 252: Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers Who Died between 1800 and 1899, from the First Published Critical Appraisals to Current Evaluations. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2012.

MLA Style Citation of this Web Page:

Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 2: Hannah Webster Foster." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. URL: http://www.paulreuben.website/pal/chap2/foster.html (provide page date or date of your login).