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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 1850s (pronounced "eighteen-fifties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1850, and ended on December 31, 1859.. It was a very turbulent decade, as wars such as the Crimean War, shifted and shook European politics, as well as the expansion of colonization towards the Far East, which also sparked conflicts like the Second Opium War.
Afong Moy was the first known female Chinese immigrant to the United States. [6] [7] In 1834, Moy was brought from her hometown of Guangzhou to New York City by traders Nathaniel and Frederick Carne, and exhibited as "The Chinese Lady".
Gabriel, Ralph Henry. The Pageant of America: A Pictorial History of the United States. Volume 11: The American spirit in letters. United States, Yale University Press, 1926, 201. Greene, Aella. Reminiscent Sketches. Florence, Massachusetts: Press of the Bryant Print, 1902. Habegger, Alfred. My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily ...
In 1850, there were an estimated 10,000 to 30,000 homeless children in New York City. At the time, New York City's population was only 500,000. [1] Some children were orphaned when their parents died in epidemics of typhoid, yellow fever or the flu. [1] Others were abandoned due to poverty, illness, or addiction. [1]
The Avellino family emigrated from a poverty-stricken Italian island in the early 20th century. But now they’re back – and living in their ancestral cave home.
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Boorstin, Daniel J. (1967). The Americans: The National Experience. Browning, Andrew H. (2019). The Panic of 1819: The First Great Depression. Clark, Christopher (2007). Social Change in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War. Genovese, Eugene D. (1976).
Cyrus H. K. Curtis, American publisher (died 1933) [27] Alice Moore McComas, American author, editor, lecturer and reformer (died 1919) [28] June 27 – Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo), Greek-born Irish American scholar and writer on Japan (died 1904) July 2 – Dumitru C. Moruzi, Russian-born Romanian political figure and social novelist (died ...