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Foster, Hannah Webster

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Foster, Hannah Webster (1759–1840), wife of a Massachusetts clergyman, was the author of The Coquette (1797), a popular sentimental novel, and The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils (1798), a series of didactic lectures to young ladies.

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