Publicity photograph from the 1926 silent film version of The Scarlet Letter starring Lillian Gish as Hester Prynne and Lars Hanson as Arthur Dimmesdale

"The Meanings of Hawthorne's Women," lecture delivered by Dr. Richard Millington, Smith College: at The House of the Seven Gables Historic Site on September 8, 2000.

"To Be My Own Human Child: Parenting and Romance," paper delivered by Dr. Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Professor of American Studies and English, Amherst College, Amherst, MA,at the American Literature Association Conference on May 24, 2003.

"Subverting the Subversive: Hawthorne’s Containment of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter," paper by Dr. Melissa Pennell ,University of Massachusetts, Lowell, delivered at Salem State College on March 10, 2004.

"Symbol and Interpretation in The Scarlet Letter," paper by Dr. Stephanie Carrez, delivered at the conference of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, celebrating the Hawthorne bicentennial in Salem, MA, July 1-4, 2004.

"Passions of Hawthorne's New Eve: Female Desire in The Scarlet Letter," paper delivered by Dr. David Greven, Assistant Professor of English, Connecticut College, New London, CT, at the American Literature Association Conference in 2006.

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