Freed by the death of the clergyman she was expected to marry, Eliza Wharton resolves to enjoy her youth before settling down. In letters to her friend Lucy Freeman she weighs two suitors: the earnest minister Mr. Boyer, who offers respectability, and the charming rake Major Sanford, whose own letters to a friend reveal what he intends. Her friends watch with growing alarm.
One of the most popular American novels of the early republic, based on a real Connecticut scandal and prefaced here by a memoir of the author. Download the free EPUB.