According to popular tradition, the gravestone of Elizabeth Pain in Boston's King's Chapel Burying Ground was the inspiration for Hester Prynne's grave.
Hester Prynne, the protagonist of the novel The Scarlet Letter
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A Puritan minister, he has fathered an illegitimate child, Pearl, with Hester Prynne and seeks to hide the truth of his relationship with her.
Elizabeth Pain, whose headstone is claimed to be the inspiration for Hester Prynne's in The Scarlet Letter
In 1896 she created the role of Hester Prynne in the fully staged premiere of Walter Damrosch's opera The Scarlet Letter in Boston.
Next Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter” is represented by Hester Prynne and the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale.