American novelist Hannah Webster Foster was born #OTD in 1758.
Her epistolary novel, The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton, was published anonymously in 1797. In 1798, she published The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils, a commentary on female education in the United States.
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Books by Hannah Webster Foster at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4366
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