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Have a test or term paper or upcoming class discussion on the rumored affair of Edgar Allan Poe and Frances Osgood in The Scarlet Letter? Read the comprehensive study guide for educators and students as uncovered by attorney Andrew Barger --- The Scarlet Letter: Edgar Poe and Frances Edition and Study Guide. The full text of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s famous novel is included. Each chapter of the novel is analyzed in relation to the rumored love affair.

 

For discerning educators and students:

• Analysis of each chapter;

• Multiple questions for each chapter; 

• Hawthorne biography by Henry James;

• List of the works of Hawthorne;

• Detail on initial printings of TSL;

• Main character comparisons to real-life authors and Puritans; and

• Summary of TSL. 

 

Andrew Barger is the author of The Affair of Edgar Poe and Frances Osgood in The Scarlet Letter. Andrew is an attorney and Poe scholar who uncovered that Hawthorne placed the rumored affair of Poe and Osgood in TSL. He is a member of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, Edgar Allan Poe Society, and the Poe Society of Baltimore.

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Hacking Hawthorne by Andrew Barger  

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne                

Introduction—The Custom House    

            Analysis + Student Questions              

I.        The Prison-Door    

            Analysis + Student Questions             

II.        The Market-Place    

            Analysis + Student Questions              

III.        The Recognition    

            Analysis + Student Questions              

IV.        The Interview        

            Analysis + Student Questions              

V.        Hester at Her Needle    

            Analysis + Student Questions            

VI.        Pearl   

            Analysis + Student Questions             

VII.    The Governor’s Hall   

            Analysis + Student Questions              

VIII.    The Elf-Child and the Minister    

            Analysis + Student Questions            

IX.        The Leech    

            Analysis + Student Questions             

X.        The Leech and His Patient   

            Analysis + Student Questions             

XI.        The Interior of a Heart   

            Analysis + Student Questions             

XII.    The Minister’s Vigil    

            Analysis + Student Questions              

XIII.    Another View of Hester    

            Analysis + Student Questions          

XIV.    Hester and the Physician    

            Analysis + Student Questions        

XV.    Hester and Pearl    

            Analysis + Student Questions        

XVI.    A Forest Walk        

            Analysis + Student Questions       

XVII.    The Pastor and His Parishioner    

            Analysis + Student Questions       

XVIII.    A Flood of Sunshine    

            Analysis + Student Questions        

XIX.    The Child at the Brook-Side    

            Analysis + Student Questions        

XX.    The Minister in a Maze    

            Analysis + Student Questions       

XXI.    The New England Holiday    

            Analysis + Student Questions       

XXII.    The Procession    

            Analysis + Student Questions        

XXIII.    The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter   

            Analysis + Student Questions        

XXIV.    Conclusion    

            Analysis + Student Questions        

 

Appendices  

Nathaniel Hawthorne Biography - Henry James   

Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne    

Initial Printings of The Scarlet Letter           

Main Characters Compared    

Short Summary of The Scarlet Letter     

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