Angel and apostle

Description:

At the end of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel, The Scarlet Letter, we know that Pearl, the elf-child daughter of Hester Prynne, is somewhere in Europe, comfortable, well set, a mother herself now. But it could not have been easy for her to arrive at such a place, when she begins life as the bastard child of a woman publicly humiliated, again and again, in an unrelentingly judgmental Puritan world.

subjects: Literature,  Fiction,  Self-perception,  Puritans,  Mothers and daughters,  Mothers and daughters, fiction,  Massachusetts, fiction,  Fiction, historical,  Children's fiction,  Puritans, fiction,  Fantasy fiction,  England, fiction,  History,  Fiction, historical, general

Places: Massachusetts,  History

Times: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775