The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town prison with her infant daughter, Pearl, in her arms and the scarlet letter
Illegitimate children --Fiction
- Auteur:Hawthorne, NathanielSommaire:
- Auteur:COOKSON, CatherineSommaire:
Kate is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter Annie as the eldest child of their household. But Annie is beset with some of the problems experienced by her mother: religious prejudice...