Embroidering the Scarlet A: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film

Author: Janet Mason Ellerby
Content: xii + 277 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
Description: Covers works including The Color Purple, Juno, Love Medicine, Mother and Child, The Scarlet Letter, and The Sound and the Fury.
Main subject: Film and Television
Literature and Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780472072637 (cloth); 9780472052639 (pap.); 9780472121052 (ebook)
Citation: Ellerby, Janet Mason. Embroidering the Scarlet A: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. Sylvia. Accessed October 16, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL3032.
Updated: 01-19-2024

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