# Hester Prynne

Hester Prynne is represented within Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, published 1850 and fictionalized 17th-century Puritan New England. Canon classification: fictional literary character in Hawthorne’s novel, not a historical Puritan woman.

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