Picture of by Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter, by Charles Osgood; nineteenth century American Literature
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Salem & The Scarlet Letter
On this day in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter was published. Hawthorne's claim of having discovered a red letter 'A' in the Salem Custom-House was a literary device, but two ancestors had been forced to wear forehead bands identifying their incestuous conduct, another had been a judge at the witch trials, and Salem itself, in his experience, was a punishment.
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