Men from Fall River identified the deceased as Sarah Maria Cornell. One was her Methodist pastor, Ira Bidwell. Another was ...
These days, we tend to think about The Scarlet Letter in relation to high school students struggling with their English papers, but we didn’t always see the book that way. When Nathaniel ...
And just as today, the punishment is unequally distributed: Her lover’s identity is publicly unknown, so she wears the scarlet letter alone (just as Schlossberg is punished not just for his sin ...
the author of a bestselling book on the case recounted an interview with one of the falsely accused men, who worried he'd wear a scarlet letter from the incident for the rest of his life.