“Hester Prynne & Pearl before the stocks” An illustration by Mary Hallock Foote From an 1878 edition of The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne was a protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter. She is portrayed as a woman condemned by her Puritan neighbors who were all sinners but cast the first stones in judgement of her…
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