In what year was the author of The Scarlet Letter born?
The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is an 1850 fictional novel in a historical setting, written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book is considered to be his "masterwork". Set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
Petticoat Government Petticoat Government was written by Baroness Orczy, author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel", in 1910. It was released under the title "Petticoat Rule" in the U.S. in the same year.