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Isobel Gamble leaves Scotland for Salem with her husband Edward, hoping to begin again after his debts. When he departs aboard another ship, her needlework becomes a means of making her own way. Laurie Lico Albanese's historical novel imagines her connection with Nathaniel Hawthorne, bringing artistic ambition and unusual sensory experiences into a story linked to The Scarlet Letter.

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Laurie Lico Albanese

Laurie Lico Albanese places imagined lives beside the gaps and silences of literary history. Hester follows Isobel Gamble, a Scottish seamstress who reaches Salem in 1829 and meets Nathaniel Hawthorne, recasting the possible origins of The Scarlet Letter through a woman’s perspective. St. Martin’s Press published the historical novel in 2022.

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First published
2022
Reading time
About 8 hours
Pages
382
Language
English
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