The Coquette, Or The History of Eliza Wharton
Hannah Webster Foster
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The classic early American epistolary novel about the seduction and ruin of a passionate young woman. Based on the true story of Elizabeth Whitman, whose lonesome death in childbirth in a Connecticut inn sparked widespread discussion and outrage, the novel went through many editions and innumerable printings in the century after its initial publication in 1797. (Summary by Jon Miller) (6 hr 32 min)
Chapters
Introduction | 38:07 | Read by Michele Eaton |
Letters I through VII | 26:19 | Read by Jon Miller |
Letters VIII through XIV | 27:13 | Read by Jon Miller |
Letters XV through XXIII | 28:42 | Read by Jon Miller |
Letters XXIV through XXIX | 32:18 | Read by Lynne T |
Letters XXX through XXXVII | 29:45 | Read by Jennifer Dallman |
Letters XXXVIII through XL | 27:42 | Read by Kari Lynn Hewett |
Letters XLI through XLIII | 26:59 | Read by Jennifer Dallman |
Letters XLIV through L | 22:00 | Read by Michele Eaton |
Letters LI through LVI | 27:47 | Read by Lynne T |
Letters LVII through LXI | 26:48 | Read by Soumen Barua |
Letters LXII through LXVI | 28:55 | Read by Lynne T |
Letters LXVII through LXIX | 21:53 | Read by Lynne T |
Letters LXX through LXXIV | 27:37 | Read by Lynne T |
Reviews
A LibriVox Listener
Familiar theme. The rake and the virgin. Not much character development so not much sympathy. Inferior take-off of Richardson's masterpiece Clarissa Marlowe. Readers uniformly good. Always a treat to hear Lynne Thompson. Her style is elegant and hypnotic. I give it ***1/2 stars. I give her ***** stars