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American Romanticism Hawthorne, Melville and Poe I. General Introduction Main Works Young Goodman Brown ,1835 Twice-Told Tales, 1837 Mosses from an Old Manse, 1846 The Scarlet Letter, 1850 The House of Seven Gables , 1851 The Blithedale Romance, 1852 The Marble Faun , 1860 III. The Research of Hawthorne and His Works Major Themes in Hawthorne’s Fictions Major Themes in Hawthorne’s Fictions Who is the protagonist of The Scarlet Letter? IV. The Scarlet Letter (1850) By degrees, nor very slowly, her handiwork became what would now be termed the fashion. Whether from commiseration for a woman of so miserable a destiny; or from the morbid curiosity that gives a fictitious value even to common or worthless things , or by whatever other intangible circumstance was then, as now sufficient to bestow, on some persons, what others might seek in vain; or because Hester really filled a gap which must otherwise have remained vacant ; it is certain that she had ready and fairly requited employment for as many hours as she saw fit to occupy with her needle. Vanity, it may be, chose to mortify itself, by putting on, for ceremonials of pomp and state, the garments that had been wrought by her sinful hands. Her needlework was seen on the ruff of the Governor; military men wore it on their scarfs, and the minister on his band ; it decked the babys little cap ; it was shut up to be mildewed and moulder away, in the coffins of the dead. But it is not recorded that, in a single instance, her skill was called in aid to embroider the white veil which was to cover the pure blushes of a bride. ------from Chapter V Hester at the Needle And, as Hester Prynne had no selfish ends, nor lived in any measure for her own profit and enjoyment, people brought all their sorrows and perplexities, and besought her counsel, as one who had herself gone through a mighty trouble. Women,