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Mary Baker Eddy Library > Programs > Past programs > Video > Author talks > Hester Prynne, Mary Baker Eddy, and women of revelation in American history

April 4, 2014

Hester Prynne, Mary Baker Eddy, and women of revelation in American history

As part of our Women’s History programming for the month of March, Harvard Divinity School Professor David Holland speaks about spiritual revelation during the 19th and early 20th century in relation to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.

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