include Dorothy Z. Baker's work, which argues that "Eliza's struggle to control her life begins with the struggle to control language, the language of society that dictates her identity and conscribes her life." Additionally, C. Leiren Mower makes the case that Eliza "reworks Lockean theories of labor and ownership as a means of authorizing proprietary control over her body's commerce in the social marketplace. Instead of accepting her social and legal status as another's personal property, Eliza publicly performs her dissent as visible evidence of the legitimacy of her proprietary claims." In 1798, Foster published her second novel, The Boarding School, which was never reprinted and not nearly as popular as The Coquette. Adaptations A poem titled The Coquette, borrowing heavily from Webster Foster's work, was printed in 1798 in The Humming Bird, the first known magazine published by a woman editor in the United States. Notes References . . . . . . . Waterman, Bryan. "Who Reads an Early American Book?" Common-place. Apr. 2009. Web. 26 Nov. 2010. <http://www.common-place.org/vol-09/no-03/waterman/>. Wolfer, Jessica, and Dean DeCuir. "Characters of The Coquette." Bleckblog: | Musings of a Community College English Teacher. Ed. Terra Potts, Erica Scott, and Skyler Cantrell. 11 May 2006. Web. 21 Nov. 2010. <http://bleckblog.org/lit/coquette>. Karen A. Weyler. "Marriage, Coverture, and the Companionate Ideal in The Coquette and Dorval." Legacy 26.1 (2009): 1-25. Print. Further reading Bontatibus, Donna R. The Seduction Novel of the Early Nation: A Call for Socio-Political Reform. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999. Dill, Elizabeth. "A Mob of Lusty Villagers: Operations of Domestic Desires in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 15.3 (2003): 255–279. Finseth, Ian. "'A Melancholy tale:' Rhetoric, Fiction, and Passion in The Coquette." Studies in the Novel 33.2 (2001): 125-159. Hamilton, Kristie. "'An Assault on the Will:' Republican Virtue and the City in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette. Early American Literature 24 (1989): 135–51. Korobkin, Laura H. "Can Your Volatile Daughter Ever Acquire Your Wisdom?' Luxury and False Ideas in The Coquette." Early American Literature 41.1 (2006): 79-107. Martin, Terence. "Social Institutions in the Early American Novel." American Quarterly 9.1 (1957): 72–84. Wenska, Walter P., Jr. "The Coquette and the American Dream of Freedom." Early American Literature 12 (1978): 243–55. External links Foster, Hannah Webster The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact by Hannah Webster Foster. Boston: Printed by Samuel Etheridge for E. Larkin, 1797.