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1 online resource (lii, 264 pages) : illustrations |
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Writers in their own time |
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Writers in their own time (University of Iowa Press)
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Chronology -- [Reminiscences of my brother from his childhood through the 1830s] / Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne (1870-1871) -- [Childhood encounters with Hawthorne in Salem / Lucy Ann Sutton Bradley] (1887) -- [Epistolary thoughts on Hawthorne, 1838-1886] / Elizabeth Palmer Peabody -- [Journal thoughts on Hawthorne, 1838-1864] / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- [First years of marriage at the Old Manse, 1842-1845 / Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne] -- Reminiscences of a childhood in Concord in the 1840s / Annie Sawyer Downs] (1891) -- [On first meeting Hawthorne in America, 1852 / Henry Arthur Bright] -- From The homes of the new world ; Impressions of America / Fredrika Bremer (1853) -- "Hawthorne" / George William Curtis (1853) -- [Vagabondizing with Hawthorne in England in 1856 / Francis Bennoch] -- [My earliest memories of father: Italy, 1858-1859] / Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (1897) -- [Memories of the Hawthornes at the Wayside in 1862] / Rebecca Harding Davis (1900) -- "Nathaniel Hawthorne" / [Richard Holt Hutton] (1864) -- "Nathaniel Hawthorne" / Edward Dicey (1864) -- "Hawthorne" / Oliver Wendell Holmes (1864) -- From "Our whispering gallery" / [James T. Fields] (1871) -- From Concord days / A[mos] Bronson Alcott (1872) -- "Bowdoin College -- Nathaniel Hawthorne" / John S.C. Abbott (1875) -- From A study of Hawthorne / George Parsons Lathrop (1876) -- From Hawthorne / Henry James (1879) -- "Nathaniel Hawthorne" / George B. Loring (1880) -- [A conversation about Hawthorne at the Concord School of Philosophy in 1880 / Franklin B. Sanborn] -- "Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne" / Moncure Daniel Conway (1882) -- "My first visit to New England" / William Dean Howells (1894) -- From Sketches from Concord and Appledore / Frank Preston Stearns (1895) -- "Hawthorne's last years" / Julian Hawthorne (1904) |
| Summary |
At his death, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was universally acknowledged in America and England as ""the Great Romancer."" Novels such as The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables and stories published in such collections as Twice-Told Tales continue to capture the minds and imaginations of readers and critics to this day. Harder to capture, however, were the character and personality of the man himself. So few of the essays that appeared in the two years after his death offered new insights into his life, art, and reputation that Hawthorne seemed fated to premature obscurity or, |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index |
| Notes |
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 fast |
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Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Authors, American
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Bosco, Ronald A.
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Murphy, Jillmarie.
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| ISBN |
9781587297113 |
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1587297116 |
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