Hester Prynne

From first to last, in short, Hester Prynne had always this dreadful agony in feeling a human eye upon the token; the spot never grew callous; it seemed, on the contrary, to grow more sensitive with daily torture.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

From first to last, in short, Hester Prynne had always this dreadful agony in feeling a human eye upon the token; the spot never grew callous; it seemed, on the contrary, to grow more sensitive with daily torture.

V. Hester at Her Needle 1917

From first to last, in short, Hester Prynne had always this dreadful agony in feeling a human eye upon the token; the spot never grew callous; it seemed, on the contrary, to grow more sensitive with daily torture.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

From first to last, in short, Hester Prynne had always this dreadful agony in feeling a human eye upon the token; the spot never grew callous; it seemed, on the contrary, to grow more sensitive with daily torture.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

For as long as she can remember they were served and looked after in every way by a woman called Hester Prynne and this half-witted fellow called Caliban.

Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

"Hester Prynne," said Margarita Joséphine Dolores, "and I have had nothing to eat since the man with the shining buttons gave me meat between bread a great many hours ago.

Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

"Hester Prynne," cried he, with a piercing earnestness, "in the name of Him, so terrible and so merciful, who gives me grace, at this last moment, to do what -- for my own heavy sin and miserable agony -- I withheld myself from doing seven years ago, come hither now, and twine thy strength about me!

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

"Hester Prynne," said he, leaning over the balcony and looking down steadfastly into her eyes, "thou hearest what this good man says, and seest the accountability under which I labour.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

"Hester Prynne," said he, fixing his naturally stern regard on the wearer of the scarlet letter, "there hath been much question concerning thee of late.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Suffice it to say that Olive identifies intensely with Hester Prynne, the outcast heroine of "The Scarlet Letter."

'The Help': '60s Racism in Black and White Joe Morgenstern 2011