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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 July 27, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL3032.
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01-19-2024
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