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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.
The Scarlet Letter is an opera by Walter Damrosch, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel of the same name. The libretto was by George Parsons Lathrop , the son-in-law of Hawthorne. The work is Wagnerian in style, Damrosch being a great enthusiast and champion of the composer.
"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 ...
Roger Chillingworth is a fictional character and primary antagonist in the 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is an English scholar who moves to the New World after his wife, Hester Prynne.
The South Carolina lawmaker’s fashion statement appears to be a reference to the 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter. In the novel, the female lead character Hester Prynne was forced to wear a scarlet ...
The Scarlet Letter characters (3 P) W. Works based on The Scarlet Letter (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "The Scarlet Letter"
LitCharts, an offshoot of SparkNotes, got scooped up today by a newly minted edtech unicorn, Course Hero. The creators of SparkNotes, Ben Florman and Justin Kestler, created LitCharts as an ...
In our youth-obsessed society, “aging” truly has become a four-letter word. Aging. It’s funny how a biological process we all go through, individually and collectively, is a concept we try ...