Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.
Hawthorne in the 1860s
Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Charles Osgood, 1841 (Peabody Essex Museum)
Nathaniel Hawthorne's childhood home in Raymond, Maine, built in 1804
Boston Custom House, Custom House Street, where Hawthorne worked c. 1839–40
The Scarlet Letter
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The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a historical novel by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tell
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…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 political appointment as consul took Hawthorne and family to Europe before their…
Title page, first edition, 1850
The Scarlet Letter by Hugues Merle (1861). Hester Prynne and Pearl in the foreground.
She beheld the minister advancing, illustrated by Hugh Thomson from a 1920 edition
Hester Prynne at the pillory, an engraved illustration from an 1878 edition