Pearl: A Romance
- ISBN-10
- 1857993764
- ISBN-13
- 9781857993769
- Series
- Pearl
- Category
- Young women
- Pages
- 234
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Orion
- Author
- C. W. E. Bigsby
Description
Completing the sequence begun with Hester, the prequel to Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, this free-standing historical novel returns Pearl to Norwich, and her tainted inheritance. Hester Prynne's daughter has returned to England to claim the inheritance and property from which her mother fled. Although a determined young woman of twenty, she is not prepared for the forces determined to withstand her claims.
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