Eliza Wharton Book Summary

The history of Eliza Wharton by Hannah Webb Foster, is a book that tells the story of Eliza Wharton though the point of view of letters. The letters start off with you learning of a woman named Eliza Wharton, who is writing to her friend Lucy Freeman. During those letters, Eliza describes much of the events happening in her life. When we first meet Eliza she is in mourning for the death of her husband. Eliza describes how she wish she could learn something from his behavior, and how she now resides with friends. Later in the letters we learn that Eliza was at Colonel Farrington’s when she met a man named Mr. Boyer, who is a minister, and how they spent a nice evening together. Mr. Boyer then writes to Mr. selby, Describing how he was met