This novel opens with a preamble discussing the circumstances under which it was  written, with the title object having been found with an old manuscript. The  protagonist's affair with the minister Dimmesdale brings disastrous consequences,  and the protagonist almost loses her daughter Pearl. Her disguised husband  Chillingworth helps Dimmesdale punish himself, and mother and daughter disappear  after his death. FTP name this novel about Hester Prynne by Nathaniel Hawt
This novel opens with a preamble discussing the circumstances under which it was  written, with the title object having been found with an old manuscript. The  protagonist's affair with the minister Dimmesdale brings disastrous consequences,  and the protagonist almost loses her daughter Pearl. Her disguised husband  Chillingworth helps Dimmesdale punish himself, and mother and daughter disappear  after his death. FTP name this novel about Hester Prynne by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
This novel opens with a preamble discussing the circumstances under which it was  written, with the title object having been found with an old manuscript.