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Excerpt from The Coquette, or the Life and Letters of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact HE who waits beside the folded gates of mys tery, over which forever ¿oat the impurpled vapors of the past, should stand with girded loins, and white, unshodden feet. So he who attempts to lift the veil that separates the real from the ideal, or to remove the heavy curtain that for a century may have concealed from view the actual person ages of a wel...

Hannah Webster Foster (1758-1840) was an American novelist. In the 1770s she began writing political articles for Boston newspapers. 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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