Nathaniel Hawthorne releases his novel, The Scarlet Letter, to the world. The novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, a woman who is ostracized in her Puritan community because she gave birth to an illegitimate child. The work can serve as an expose of the sexual double standard and lack of women's rights that exists during this time.

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