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  2. The Scarlet Letter - Wikipedia

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    The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. [2] Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.

  3. Nathaniel Hawthorne - Wikipedia

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    He worked at the Boston Custom House and joined Brook Farm, a transcendentalist community, before marrying Peabody in 1842. The couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, later moving to Salem, the Berkshires, then to The Wayside in Concord. The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, followed by a succession of other novels. A ...

  4. Custom House - Wikipedia

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    Custom House Stadium, a name for West Ham Stadium "The Custom-House", Nathaniel Hawthorne's introductory essay to The Scarlet Letter Custom House, an imprint of William Morrow and Company

  5. The “scarlet letter” A is a well-known allusion to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s famed 1850 book about a woman who was punished for adultery and forced to wear an A for shame.

  6. Hester Prynne - Wikipedia

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    "Hester Prynne & Pearl before the stocks", an illustration by Mary Hallock Foote from an 1878 edition of The Scarlet Letter. Hester Prynne is the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter. She is portrayed as a woman condemned by her Puritan neighbors for having a child out of wedlock. The character has been called ...

  7. House of the Seven Gables - Wikipedia

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    The House of the Seven Gables (also known as the Turner House or Turner-Ingersoll Mansion) is a 1668 colonial mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, named for its gables. It was made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne 's 1851 novel The House of the Seven Gables .

  8. The House of the Seven Gables - Wikipedia

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    English critic Henry Chorley also noted that, with The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, "few will dispute [Hawthorne's] claim to rank amongst the most original and complete novelists that have appeared in modern times." [12] Some did not agree. "The book is an affliction", claimed fellow author Catharine Maria Sedgwick. "It ...

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