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From Feb 05.

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Hawthorne could have found numerous examples of infanticidal mothers in the Puritan sources from which he composed The Scarlet Letter, including several that occurred during the period that comprises the novel's historical setting. Peter Hoffer and N. E. H. Hull cite the case of Dorothy Talbie of Salem, who was hanged in 1638 for murdering her three-year-old daughter. Recording this incident in his journal, John Winthrop noted that Talbie was "so possessed with Satan that he persuaded her (by his delusions, which she listened to as revelations from God) to break the neck of her own child, that she might free it from future misery." (12) Winthrop's explanation and the motive he attributes to Talbie anticipate Hester's thoughts of saving Pearl and herself from earthly pain. In another case Allice Bishop was executed in Plymouth in 1648 for murdering her four-year-old daughter, whom she had apparently conceived in an act of adultery. (13) In the same year another Massachusetts court condemned Mary Martin to death for killing her newborn daughter. The circumstances of the case bear some similarities to those in The Scarlet Letter. As recorded by Winthrop, Mary Martin's father had returned to England without arranging for proper supervision for his two daughters. Mary, the elder, promptly committed adultery with the… _______________________________________________________________________________________________ ccnp training, ccnt and ccvp and crm certification