Prynne
Americannoun
noun
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The author likens Grietje to the women of Salem and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne, describing her as one of early America’s “unfairly and heinously maligned women.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
The Scarlet Letter: Hester Prynne uses the special powers given to her by her cool letter-A suit to shatter society’s expectations of what women can do!
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022
The Puritan appetite needs regular sating; every generation, you could say, must have its Hester Prynne.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 6, 2019
Think of Hawthorne's novel "The Scarlet Letter": Hester Prynne experienced shame, while her lover Arthur Dimmesdale experienced guilt.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2017
Like an oblivious Hester Prynne she carries her letter, the green capital D of her bow slung over her shoulder.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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