The Scarlet Letter, a Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorme. First published 1850. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson . Caption reads: Hester( Prynne) seated herself on the bed ' . (Chapter 4). Her ex -husband Roger Chillingworth visits her with herbs to calm her and to see Hester and the baby Pearl but also to find out who the father was and to forbid her to tell anyone that he was her husband. (Novel based in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair). NH American novelist 4 1804 – 19 May 186

The Scarlet Letter, a Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorme. First published 1850. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson . Caption reads: Hester( Prynne) seated herself on the bed   '  .  (Chapter 4). Her ex -husband  Roger Chillingworth visits her with herbs to calm her and to see Hester and the baby Pearl but also to find out who the father was and to forbid her to tell anyone that he was her husband.    (Novel based  in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts,    1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair). NH American novelist  4   1804 – 19  May  186 Stock Photo
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The Scarlet Letter, a Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorme. First published 1850. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson . Caption reads: Hester( Prynne) seated herself on the bed ' . (Chapter 4). Her ex -husband Roger Chillingworth visits her with herbs to calm her and to see Hester and the baby Pearl but also to find out who the father was and to forbid her to tell anyone that he was her husband. (Novel based in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair). NH American novelist 4 1804 – 19 May 1864. HT English illusrator 1860 -1920.