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The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton

He who waits beside the folded gates of mystery, over which forever float 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 personages of a well-drawn popular fiction, or what may have been received as such, should bring to his task a tender heart and a delicate and gentle hand. | The Coquette 1 The Coquette The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton Author Hannah Webster Foster Release Date May 25 2004 EBook 12431 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COQUETTE Produced by Curtis Weyant Erin Martin Leah Moser and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Illustration Eliza Wharton THE COQUETTE OR THE HISTORY OF ELIZA WHARTON. A NOVEL FOUNDED ON FACT. BY A LADY OF MASSACHUSETTS. HISTORICAL PREFACE INCLUDING A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR. He who waits beside the folded gates of mystery over which forever float 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 personages of a well-drawn popular fiction or what may have been received as such should bring to his task a tender heart and a delicate and gentle hand. Thus in preparing an introductory chapter for these pages which are to follow many and various thoughts suggest themselves and it is necessary to recognize and pursue them with gentleness and caution. The romance of Eliza Wharton appeared in print not many years subsequent to the assumed transactions it so faithfully attempts to record. Written as it was by one highly educated for the times --the popular wife of a popular clergyman connected in no distant degree by marriage with the family of the heroine and one who by the very profession and position of her husband was as by necessity brought into the sphere of actual intercourse with the principal characters of the novel .