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Nathaniel Hawthorne

In Puritan New England, Hester Prynne, the mother of an illegitimate child wears the scarlet A (for adultress) for years rather than reveal that her lover was the saintly young village minister. Her husband, Roger Chillingworth, proceeds to torment the guiltstricken man, who confesses his adultery before dying in Hester's arms. Hester plans to take her daughter Pearl to Europe to begin a new life. The House of the Seven Gables: Based on the legend of a curse pronounced on Hawthorne's own family by a woman condemned to death during the Salem witchcraft trials. The curse is mirrored in the decay of the Pyncheon family's seven-gabled mansion. Finally the descandentant of the killed woman marries a young niece of the family and the hereditary sin ends. Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934), the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who began publishing short fiction in 1870. Many of JH's novellas and short stories are weird tales of curses and apparitions, some drawing inspiration from his Swedenborgian faith. His career was interrupted by a jail term. He moved to California, where he wrote for newspapers, pulp magazine All-Story Weekly, and edited series of anthologies. His daughter Hildegarde (1871-1952) wrote also some fantasy, which can be found in Faded Garden (1985, ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson). ...

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