The book ‘The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton A Novel’ is written by Hannah Webster Foster. ‘The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton’ is an epistolary novel. The book was published anonymously in 1797, it was attributed to Foster in 1856, after her death. The story is about Eliza Wharton, who is pursued by two men, Reverend J. Boyer and Major Peter Sanford1. Eliza’s coquettish nature leads to her downfall.