For “In the Blood,” Parks reimagines Hester Prynne as an inner-city woman struggling to make ends meet as she raises her five children, each the product of a different, long-gone father.

In 1666 in the Massachusetts Bay colony, Puritans and the Algonquian have an uneasy truce. Hester Prynne (Demi Moore) arrives from England, seeking independence. Awaiting her husband, she ...

The protagonist, Hester Prynne, has a child out of wedlock and is ostracized from town, forced to wear an embroidered red “A” on her dress for “adulterer.” “'The Scarlet Letter' is ...

That’s essentially what the abuse icon on Nursing Home Compare communicates. Just as Hester Prynne’s scarlet letter branded her in the eyes of society, the icon publicly signals a facility’s ...

The iconic work is considered America's original historical novel, and Hester Prynne its "original feminist protagonist," she says. Albanese, who wrote (with Laura Morowitz) "The Miracles of Prato ...

and showcase the beauty of Truong Ngoc Anh as an Indochinese Hester Prynne ostracized by her village. Pic seems destined for fest screens and possible Euro cable play. Lovely to look at but too ...

Towards the conclusion of his stunning, 9,000+ word essay, the younger Hawthorne reflected on the moral irony of Hester Prynne’s world: This [the scarlet A] is her punishment, the heaviest that ...