Elizabeth Pain
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elizabeth-pain-188-11332336
title:
Elizabeth Pain
text:
Elizabeth Pain, sometimes spelled Elizabeth Paine or Elisabeth Payne, was a settler in colonial Boston who was brought to trial after the death of her child. She was acquitted of the murder charge but found guilty of negligence, fined, and flogged. According to some writers and by popular tradition, aspects of Pain's life and her gravestone are considered an inspiration for the life and grave of character Hester Prynne in the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
American settler
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Pain
date created:
2009-01-12T17:32:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T02:15:06Z
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