For 10 points, name the author of The Blithedale Romance and The House of the Seven Gables, who wrote about Pearl and her adulterous mother Hester in The Scarlet Letter.
One novel by this author features a visit to Eliot's Pulpit and sees the feminist Zenobia committing suicide after Hollingsworth betrays her for her half-sister. In another work by him, Hepzibah feels shame when poverty forces her to open a penny shop, and she eventually leaves her estate behind to Holgrave, a descendant of (*) Matthew Maule. For 10 points, name the author of The Blithedale Romance and The House of the Seven Gables, who wrote about Pearl and her adulterous mother Hester in The Scarlet Letter.
One novel by this author features a visit to Eliot's Pulpit and sees the feminist Zenobia committing suicide after Hollingsworth betrays her for her half-sister.
Nathaniel {Hawthorne}