In early 19th century, when Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the scarlet letter, Americans had mixed feelings about the religious....

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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1804. His family descended from the earliest settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; among his forebears was John Hathorne (Hawthorne added the “w” to his name when he began to write)
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