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Hester PrynneRead about the other nine reformations on Mullan's list.
The protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter has sinned in the worst way a young woman in a Puritan community can: she has had a child outside wedlock. She is forced to wear a scarlet A to proclaim her sinfulness, but over the next seven years wins the community round by dedicating herself to charitable endeavours.
--Marshal Zeringue