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The Scarlet Letter

Slate Magazine - The XX Factor | 1 day ago

Stop Picking Apart Rielle

...is something in all of this bashing that to me has a Hawthorne-like quality. Think of Hester Prynne in the Scarlet Letter. There is a nasty female cattiness to all of this, and ......

washingtonpost.com | 1 day ago

Today in History

On March 16, 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlet Letter" was first published. In A.D. 37, Roman emperor Tiberius died; he was succeeded by Caligula. In 1751, James Madison,...

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Playbill.com | 1 day ago

Today In Theatre History: MARCH 16

...year, but many newspapers refuse to print the title. Fucking A, her new take on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," opens at the Public Theatre's Anspacher Theater space, with a...

Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z | 2 days ago

This day in history

...establishment of the US Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. ► In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlet Letter'' was first published. ► In 1915, the Federal Trade Commission...

Independent.ie | 1 week ago

Banks must help solve the lurking crisis in mortgage defaults

...bankruptcy must be buried. Irish law's approach to bankruptcy is reminiscent of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter': "It is too deeply branded; Ye cannot take it off."

Jezebel | 2 weeks ago

Page Rage: When Books Make Kids Hate Reading [Book-learning]

...that she grows to hate literature - or at least great swaths of it - entirely. After a bad experience with The Scarlet Letter in junior high, a clutch of my friends arrived at high school...

ChicagoNow | 3 weeks ago

For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon

...the cause too. Published in Magnificent Obsession and tagged Clara Bow, Dorothy Arzner, Film Preservation, History, Ida Lupino, Lillian Gish, Scarlet Letter, silent film, Theda Bara

Marie Claire | 1 month ago

Should Politicians Have Higher Standards When They Cheat?

...something for husband and wife to negotiate without public intrusions? Related: I was reading The Scarlet Letter over the weekend. It is, as you might remember, a story about...

"In Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece, 'The Scarlet Letter,' Hester Prynne is forced to walk amid her small, Puritan community wearing a red 'A' on her chest for the social crime of having sex outside of the bounds of marriage," columnist Megan Carpentier of London's Guardian writes. A new Oklahoma law requiring abortion providers to report detailed information about women seeking the procedure proves that "[s]ome things in America haven't changed as much as we'd like to believe,"

Oklahoma Law Equivalent To 'Scarlet Letter' For Women Who Seek Abortions, Column Says Medical News Today | 4 months ago

Blogcritics | 1 month ago

Book Reviews: Hester: The Missing Years of the The Scarlet Letter by Paula Reed, and Angel and Apostle by Deborah Noyes

Home Books Book Reviews: Hester: The Missing Years of the The Scarlet Letter by Paula Reed, and Angel and Apostle by Deborah Noyes "A sinister cabal of superior writers." Book Reviews:...

ChicagoNow | 1 month ago

The Watchful Femme 1.2

...Post, and I sincerely hope we make a difference. I think I'm going to write about Lillian Gish in The Scarlet Letter (1926), which was written by the wonderful Frances Marion and directed...

Jezebel | 1 month ago

"Taylor Swift Is A Feminist's Nightmare" [Pop Life]

...year), etc. (I love that Riese notes: "[Taylor has] one song that misinterprets Shakespeare and The Scarlet Letter so criminally I'm certain she's never read either.") The reader...

Boston Globe -- Editorial / Opinion | 1 month ago

Crime: Shame has its purposes

...FOR EASY PRINTING Public shame has been a controversial punishment since well before "The Scarlet Letter,'' the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel in which Massachusetts moralists...