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[Cover of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, in Bengali, showing woman wearing hood with letter A"]" – Historic Reproduction

[Cover of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, in Bengali, showing woman wearing hood with letter A"]", [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Cover of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, in Bengali, showing woman wearing hood with letter A"]", [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Cover of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, in Bengali, showing woman wearing hood with letter A"]", preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A Bengali-language cover of Nathaniel Hawthorne's *The Scarlet Letter* gives this item its particular interest. It shows a woman in a hood beside the letter A, the novel's central emblem of shame. Hawthorne published the book in 1850, a story of adultery and public humiliation set in seventeenth-century Puritan Boston, and it spread widely in translation. The caption card records no date, so the exact printing is uncertain. Still, seeing the American novel's images of sin and judgment rendered in Bengali script shows how far its themes traveled beyond New England.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
Notescf: The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, Summer 1983, p. 262. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Books; Women; Adultery.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,072 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-156388

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