Title: 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
Time periods: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775