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While there, he married in 1648 (his fourth wife) a young widow, Mary Beedle of Kittery, Maine. In 1651, she was indicted and sentenced for adultery with a neighbor. [18] There are scholars who believe that she was the model of the character of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter. [19]
May 7, 2024 · A Red-hot 'A' and a Lusting Divine: Sources For The Scarlet Letter, New England Quarterly article from 1987 which examines the possibility that Bachiler's fourth wife was the inspiration for Hester Prynne in Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter.
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- Mary Magdalene Turner, “The Scarlet Letter
Dec 14, 2021 · Three years later, she was indicted and sentenced for adultery with a neighbor, potentially inspiring the character of Hester Prynne in “The Scarlet Letter.” Even so, the courts would not grant Bachiler a divorce. He returned to England in 1653, where he died on Oct. 28, 1656.
Aug 9, 2015 · August 09, 2015. Is The Scarlet Letter A True Story? I was on vacation last week, and what book is better for beach reading than Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter? Secret sins, illegitimate children, adultery, repressive Puritans, and possible supernatural shenanigans - it has everything you want in a summer book.
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A Red-hot 'A' and a Lusting Divine: Sources For The Scarlet Letter, New England Quarterly article from 1987 which examines the possibility that Bachiler's fourth wife was the inspiration for Hester Prynne in Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter.
Roger Chillingworth (Stephen Bachiler) - secret husband of Hester, seeks out the father of Pearl, discovers it is Dimmesdale and slowly tortures him as his doctor. Pearl (baby Mary) - the living embodiment of the scarlet letter, born in “sin”. Boston, 1642 (Kittery, 1652) - Hawthorne’s story takes place in Boston starting in 1642.
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Dec 23, 2017 · Stephen died in London in 1656; England was firmly in the grip of the Protectorate. Cromwell died two years later and the monarchy restored in 1660. If Stephen Bachiler had stayed in England we might never had heard his name, but at the great age of seventy, he left England with his third wife and four grandsons, bound for New England.
