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Interior of a room at the Barbizon hotel (1942). Esther Greenwood, the protagonist of the story, is an ambitious English major from Boston.Having won a summer job as a "guest editor" for Ladies' Day magazine, she lives at the Barbizon hotel [4] (referred to in the novel as the "Amazon" hotel) in New York City, along with the other young women who were selected as guest editors.
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.
Arthur Dimmesdale is a fictional character in the 1850 romance The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A Puritan minister, he has fathered an illegitimate child, Pearl, with Hester Prynne and considers himself unable to reveal his sin. [1] [2]
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
[1] [2] Hibbins was later fictionalized in Nathaniel Hawthorne's famous novel The Scarlet Letter. [3] A wealthy widow, Hibbins was the sister-in-law by marriage to Massachusetts governor Richard Bellingham. [2] [4] Her sentence was handed down by Governor John Endicott. [nb 1] [3]
The Scarlet Letter, an American film starring Lucille Young and King Baggot; The Scarlet Letter, an American film starring Linda Arvidson and Murdock MacQuarrie; The Scarlet Letter (1917 film), starring Mary Martin and Stuart Holmes; The Scarlet Letter, a British film starring Sybil Thorndike and Tony Fraser
The Scarlet Letter is a 1979 miniseries based on the 1850 novel of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne: it aired on WGBH from March 3, 1979 to March 24, 1979. The series is four episodes long, 60 minutes each.
The Scarlet Letters is an English language novel published in 1953 by American author Ellery Queen. [2] It is a mystery novel set primarily in New York City. Plot summary