Word: zenobia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun. The Scarlet Letter is Hawthorne's masterpiece, and is, in the lecturer's opinion, the greatest literary work of the imagination produced on this side of the water. The Blithedale Romance differs from all of Hawthorne's other works in containing Zenobia, the one dramatically conceived and completely expressed character which this author has offered us. But in many of their traits both the novels and the shorter tales are alike. The sense of sin is the cardinal motive and the dominant quality of all Hawthorne's work. But his treatment...
...protegees, his opportunities to carry out this benevolent plan are many, for the young lady pupils of Minerva Academy - in which he is an instructor - are all in love with the young men in a neighboring college, and the principal of the seminary - an elderly maiden named Zenobia Tropics - very naturally does not approve of moonlight strolls and the customary flirtations usually indulged in by boarding-school misses...