Hannah Webster Foster
Hannah Webster Foster (born September 10, 1758 in Salisbury , Province of Massachusetts Bay as Hannah Webster , † April 17, 1840 in Montreal ) was an American writer .
Life
Hannah Webster was the daughter of a wealthy businessman.
She began writing political articles for Boston newspapers in the 1770s . Your epistolary Coquette; Or, the History of Eliza Wharton was published anonymously in 1797; her name did not appear until 1866. Her second book, The Boarding School , appeared in 1798.
Hannah Webster married John Foster in 1785 and had six children with him. When he died in 1829, she retired to Montreal . Her daughters were the writers Harriet Vaughan Cheney and Eliza Lanesford Cushing .
literature
- Hannah Webster Foster: The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton . 1797. ISBN 9780195042399 .
- Hannah Webster Foster: The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils . 1798.
- Paul Lauter: The Heath Anthology of American Literature . Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hannah Webster Foster in the catalog of the German National Library
- Your book " Coquette "
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Foster, Hannah Webster |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Webster, Hannah (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1758 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salisbury , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1840 |
| Place of death | Montreal |