The current resident, the dignified but desperately poor Hepzibah Pyncheon, opens a shop in a side room to support her brother Clifford, who has completed a thirty-year sentence for …

Hepzibah Pyncheon is the last in a long line of Pyncheon aristocrats. Hepzibah personifies the pitfalls of this aristocracy, both financially, as evidenced by her having to open and tend a …

Hepzibah is the member of the Pyncheon family who currently resides in the House of the Seven Gables, having lived as a near-recluse there for the past quarter-century. Hepzibah grew up …

Read an in-depth analysis of Hepzibah Pyncheon. Once a beautiful young man, Clifford is broken by the thirty years he spends in prison for allegedly murdering his uncle, old Jaffrey Pyncheon. …

Hepzibah is a woman of about 60. She has been living by herself in the House of the Seven Gables for the last 30 years, ever since her brother Clifford was unjustly sent to jail. All of this …

Frail, gray-haired, and garbed in black rusty silk dresses, Hepzibah is sustained by "fantasies of the old time" and by a strong, passionate love for her brother. It is for his sake that she …

Jun 25, 2020 · Hepzibah is the last in a lineage of a colonial New England family. The Pyncheons were characterized by their wealth and power – a force in Salem and beyond. “How the mighty …

Hepzibah cannot find Clifford in his room, but when she comes back downstairs she finds her brother pointing gleefully to the slumped figure of Judge Pyncheon. Worried that Clifford will be …

Hepzibah is the member of the Pyncheon family who currently resides in the House of the Seven Gables, having lived as a near-recluse there for the past quarter-century. Hepzibah grew up …

Feb 21, 2025 · The tension reaches a climax when romance blooms between the beautiful Phoebe Pyncheon, Hepzibah’s young and optimistic cousin who comes to stay with them, and …

Poverty, treading closely at her heels for a lifetime, has come up with her at last. She must earn her own food, or starve! And we have stolen upon Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon, too irreverently, …

Hepzibah Pyncheon A gaunt, sallow, rusty-jointed maiden, in a long-waisted silk gown, and with a strange horror of a turban on her head. Her visage is not even ugly.

Hepzibah Pyncheon. An elderly woman of nearly sixty, she is one of the few remaining members of the Pyncheon family. She lives a solitary life in the House of the Seven Gables, awaiting the …

Clifford and Hepzibah flee the house of the seven gables, worried that they will be implicated in the death of Judge Pyncheon. They walk along the village streets, fading into the gloomy …

Clifford has been framed for murder by his vicious cousin, Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon. And Hepzibah has locked herself away for 30 years after her brother's conviction, wallowing in grief and …

Hepzibah has lived alone in the House of the Seven Gables for thirty years, isolated “until her very brain was impregnated with the dry-rot of its timbers.” She is a sixty-year-old spinster who …

Hepzibah accuses Judge Pyncheon of committing the same crime as Colonel Pyncheon, but goes to find her brother. When she cannot find him, she returns to the room where the Judge was …

Hepzibah Pyncheon. Hepzibah is the struggling spinster heroine of the novel. She resides in the House of the Seven Gables. She is Clifford's sister and Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon's niece. In the …

By 1850, the house is home to Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon, an aging spinster who opens her home to Mr. Holgrave, a young daguerreotypist with progressive ideas.

Feb 26, 2023 · Hepzibah Pyncheon, the timid lady aristocrat of another era, bravely but often ineffectually attempts to run a Cent Shoppe as she protects and nurtures her brother Clifford …