What One 1850 Reviewer Thought of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a classic novel often read for English class in high school. But what did people of the time think of the book? In Graham’s Magazine, Volume 36, No. 5, published in May 1850 (two months after The Scarlet Letter’s publication), a review was published that was highly complimentary. In […]