* Nathaniel Hawthorne's book The Scarlet Letter opens with an account of the author himself finding the letter and records which tell the story of Hester Prynne, which is narrated in the rest of the book.

As a parolee, Valjean is branded an outcast and his passport ( his identification card ) is yellow colored — identifying him to all as a former offender, much like Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter.

Although Delia Bacon is still regarded by many literary scholars as a quintessential Hester Prynne madwoman, one recent reassessment challenges this, restoring the favorable view of Bacon held by Emerson, Hawthorne, and Whitman:

A shame campaign is a tactic in which particular individuals are singled out because of their behavior or suspected crimes, often by marking them publicly, such as Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

Set in 17th-century Puritan Salem, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.

A young woman, named Hester Prynne, has been led from the town prison with her infant daughter in her arms, and on the breast of her gown " a rag of scarlet cloth " that " assumed the shape of a letter.

Hester Prynne at the stocks-an engraved illustration from an 1878 edition.

* Hester Prynne was loosely based on Hawthorne's wife, Sofia Peabody.

The Scarlet Letter has been adapted in the recent movie Easy A ( stylized as easy A ), the story of Olive Penderghast ( Emma Stone ) who experiences the same isolation Hester Prynne undergoes in the novel.

This personality was the inspiration for the character Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, specifically her radical thinking about " the whole race of womanhood ".

Hester Prynne, an outcast protagonist like Melinda, lives in a cottage at the edge of the woods.

* Hester Prynne, the protagonist of the novel The Scarlet Letter

* Hawthorne in Salem Website Page on Hester and Pearl in The Scarlet Letter

There have been several nominees for non plus ultra of inventive adaptation, including the Roland Joffe adaptation of The Scarlet Letter with explicit sex between Hester Prynn and the minister and Native American obscene puns into a major character and the film's villain.

Locke was born in Vestal, Broome County, New York, the son of Nathaniel Reed Locke and Hester Locke.

Additionally, Hester set a Super Bowl record by becoming the first person to return an opening kick of a Super Bowl for a touchdown.

Following the recording sessions with Tim, Neil began writing and recording a third Crowded House album with Hester and Seymour, but these tracks were rejected by the record company, so Neil asked Tim if Crowded House could use the Finn songs.

Five of the album's tracks were Neil's solo compositions and two were by Hester, the exuberant " Italian Plastic ", which became a crowd favourite at concerts and the hidden track " I'm Still Here ".

Finn and Hester performed " Not the Girl You Think You Are " with Largest Living Things, before being joined by Seymour for " Sister Madly " and a version of Paul Kelly's " Leaps and Bounds ", which also featured Kelly on vocals.

( This record would be broken by Jerry Rice in Super Bowl XXIX, and later by Devin Hester in Super Bowl XLI.

The 49ers became the second team to take the opening kickoff and score a touchdown on that first drive ( the first being the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VIII ), and setting a new Super Bowl record for the fastest touchdown ( later broken by Devin Hester in Super Bowl XLI ).

Other songs performed by Amos include The Doors ' " People are Strange ", Depeche Mode's " Personal Jesus ", Joni Mitchell's " The Circle Game ", Madonna's " Live to Tell " and " Like a Prayer ", Björk's " Hyperballad ", Led Zeppelin's " When the Levee Breaks " ( which she debuted in Austin, Texas, just after the events of Hurricane Katrina ), Kate Bush's " And Dream of Sheep " and Crowded House's " Don't Dream It's Over ", dedicating it to drummer Paul Hester who had died a week before.

The doctrine was first articulated by the Supreme Court in Hester v. United States,, which stated that “ the special protection accorded by the Fourth Amendment to the people in their ‘ persons, houses, papers, and effects ,’ is not extended to the open fields.

Morticia's original mother was Hester Frump ( played in two episodes of the television show by Margaret Hamilton ), but her origins were later retconned in the films and she became Grandmama's daughter ( and Grandmama became known as Esmeralda Frump ).

Guests included Morticia's older sister Ophelia ( also played by Carolyn Jones in the original television series ), Morticia's cousin Melancholia, and Morticia's mother Hester Frump ( played in the 1960s series by Margaret Hamilton, wearing her Miss Almira Gulch dress from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz ).

Delivered by Hester in front of hundreds and a national cable television audience, the moment was described as "... one of the most compelling and touching scenes the Hall of Fame has seen.

In 1904 he married Ethel Hester Moore ( 1878 – 1961 ), and in 1907 he moved with his family to " Sopers ", a house in the village of Ditchling in Sussex, which would later become the centre of an artists ' community inspired by Gill.

The complete collection of the unedited letters between O ' Connor and Hester was unveiled by Emory University on May 12, 2007 ; the letters were given to the university in 1987 with the stipulation that they not be released to the public for 20 years.

In 1986 Finn performed with The Rock Party a charity project initiated by The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse ( NCADA ), which included many Australasian musicians such as Reg Mombassa from Mental As Anything, Eddie Rayner, Tim Finn, Nick Seymour and Paul Hester of Crowded House, Geoff Stapleton, Mark Callaghan and Robbie James of GANGgajang, Mary Azzopardi of Rockmelons, Andrew Barnum of The Vitabeats, Lissa Barnum, Michael Barclay, Peter Blakely, Deborah Conway, Jenny Morris, Danny De Costa, Greg Herbert ( The Promise ), Spencer P Jones, Sean Kelly ( Models ), John Kennedy, Paul Kelly, Martin Plaza ( Mental as Anything ), Robert Susz ( Dynamic Hepnotics ) and Rick Swinn ( The Venetians ).

* Brave Old World # 1-4 ( Feb-May 2000 ) by William Messner-Loebs, Guy Davis and Phil Hester

In 1916 the Donna Light and Power Company was incorporated by A. F. Hester, Sr., T. J. Hooks, Dr. J.

In June 1984, founder Tim Finn left Split Enz, and they released See Ya ' Round in November which included " This is Massive " which was written by Hester.

Initially, the new band formed by Hester and Neil Finn was named " The Mullanes " and then underwent a few name changes.

Other records by Crowded House with Hester are: Temple of Low Men ( 1988 ), Woodface ( 1991 ), Together Alone ( 1993 ), and the Best-of collection Recurring Dream ( 1996 ).

Paul Hester joined The Finn Brothers on stage for three songs at their Palais Theatre show in Melbourne at the end of 2004.

Robert E. Howard at about five years old ( circa 1911 ). Howard was born January 22, 1906 in Peaster, Texas, the only son of a traveling country physician, Dr. Isaac Mordecai Howard, and his wife, Hester Jane Ervin Howard.

The Patriots took the second quickest lead in Super Bowl history after linebacker Larry McGrew recovered a fumble from Walter Payton at the Chicago 19-yard line on the second play of the game ( the Bears themselves would break this record in Super Bowl XLI when Devin Hester ran back the opening kickoff for a touchdown ).

They were John, Amariah and Hannah ( wife of George L. Byon ) Hammond ; Esther Wright ( second wife of Ira Bulkley ); Elizabeth Cook ( wife of Orsemus Rathbone ); Willis and Nancy ( wife of Brockhurst L. Baker ) Hammond ; George L. and Harris T. Ryon ; Benson, Elizabeth and Charles Tubbs ; Maria Coates ( wife of Lorenzo Cook ); Edward, Charlotte and Hester Buck ; Phebe Mascho, who died young, and her brother Charles ; and a girl named Rifle, who lived in the family of John Ryon, Sr. Miss Wright ’ s pay for teaching was " calculated at one dollar per week, or one bushel of good merchantable wheat.

Baretti was a frequent visitor at the home of Hester Thrale, and his name occurs repeatedly in Boswell's Life.

Hester performed with Crowded House at the band's farewell concert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in 1996.

Hester was buried at Blackwood in the high-country region of Victoria.

In 1790, at the age of 33, he proposed marriage to Susannah Arabella Thrale ,( daughter of Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale ) but was rebuffed.

Hester Piozzi died at number 10 Sion Row, Clifton, Bristol, of complications after a fall, and was buried on 16 May 1821 near Brynbella in the churchyard of Corpus Christi Church, Tremeirchion, next to Piozzi.

* Works by and about Hester Thrale at the Internet Archive

In November 1851, the assistant board of alderman of New York City voted in favor of removing a liberty pole at the junction of Hester Street and Division Street.

The building was located at the corner of the Bowery ( Manhattan ) and Hester Street.

The sculptor Jacob Epstein was raised at 102 Hester Street.

* Hester, a character in Diane Setterfield's novel The Thirteenth Tale ', is a governess at the Angelfield estate.

The speculation that Hester did not love her husband may have originated from the fact that she was of significantly higher social status than Thrale, and often eclipsed him at social events due to her family's pedigree.

She was born at her father's seat of Chevening and lived there until early in 1800, when she was sent to live with her grandmother, Hester Pitt, Countess of Chatham, at Burton Pynsent.

Lady Hester sat at the head of his table and assisted in welcoming his guests ; she became known for her beauty and conversational skills.

When Meryon left for England, Lady Hester moved to a remote abandoned monastery at Joun, a village eight miles from Sidon, where she lived until her death.

2011 saw two major British revivals to mark Rattigan's centenary, one at the West Yorkshire Playhouse with Maxine Peake as Hester and the other at the Chichester Festival Theatre with Amanda Root as Hester alongside Anthony Calf and John Hopkins.