Nathaniel Hawthorne

Standard Name: Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Education Louisa May Alcott
She was also a great self-educator and took to reading everything from Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress to Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter (he was a family friend). She particularly admired Mary Wollstonecraft and also warmed...
Literary responses Louisa May Alcott
A recent surge of interest has produced (as well as John Matteson 's and Eve LaPlante 's studies of LAM and her father and her mother) a monograph by Harriet Reisin , 2009; a study...
Textual Production Matilda Betham-Edwards
Helen Black questioned her closely about her preferences in literature, and learned that Betham-Edwards endeavour[ed] to appreciate all the living novelists, but found the school of Tolstoy , Ibsen , and Zolarepulsive in the...
Leisure and Society Isa Blagden
IB was fond of society life, had a wide circle of friends, and was noted for her hospitality. Her home at the Villa Brichieri, with its terraced garden overlooking Florence and the Arno, was...
Textual Production Christine Brooke-Rose
Here she examines Stephen Crane , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Ezra Pound , and W. H. Auden , as examples of the role and operation of poets or fiction writers who also produce criticism.
Occupation Leonora Carrington
LC joined the Poesía en Voz Alta theatre group, designing costumes and the set for a production of Octavio Paz 's adaptation of Rappacini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne .
Eburne, Jonathan P., and Catriona McAra. “Introduction: Leonora Carrington and the international avant-garde”. Leonora Carrington and the international avant-garde, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-16.
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Intertextuality and Influence Angela Carter
Carter attributes the idea for Love to Benjamin Constant 's nineteenth-century novel Adolphe. Linden Peach also notes intertextual references to Edgar Allan Poe 's poem Annabel Lee, and Nathaniel Hawthorne 's novel The Scarlet Letter.
Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press.
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Publishing Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Between 1900 and 1907 MEC published ten poems in periodicals such as the Spectator. She contributed literary reviews to the Guardian, the Monthly Review, and (after 1902) the Times Literary Supplement...
Friends, Associates Camilla Crosland
CC 's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting...
Education Rebecca Harding Davis
Influenced by her mother's linguistic virtuosity and her father's storytelling and love of classic literature, Rebecca grew up well acquainted with early American history (whose evidence lay close at hand) and with the stories...
Friends, Associates Rebecca Harding Davis
She established a friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne through an early, enthusiastic letter, in which she described the delight of her first encounters with his work. She nevertheless felt that he always stood somewhat aloof from...
Intertextuality and Influence Rebecca Harding Davis
When it first appeared, RHD 's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community.
Davis, Rebecca Harding. “Biographical Introduction”. Life in the Iron Mills; or, the Korl Woman, edited by Tillie Olsen, The Feminist Press.
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American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
Emily Dickinson wrote to her sister-in-law for a copy.
Olsen, Tillie. Silences. Virago.
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Davis's publisher...
Textual Features Rebecca Harding Davis
She achieves this in Bits of Gossip in a series of scattered remembrances of my own generation which included vivid portraits of some of the most prominent men and women of the American nineteenth century...
Literary responses Fanny Fern
Besides being a best seller, Ruth Hall was well received by some critics, although Fern's gender frequently seemed central to their judgments. The Athenæum, noting the work's autobiographical elements, suggested that these could be...
Occupation Margaret Fuller
In the Conversations, Fuller covered topics including education, ethics, poetry, and the Classics, typically beginning with a lecture before a group discussion. Members paid for their attendance, and MF was able to support herself and...

Timeline

4 July 1804: Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist, was born in...

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4 July 1804

Nathaniel Hawthorne , novelist, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, USA.

27 October 1828: Nathaniel Hawthorne anonymously published...

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27 October 1828

Nathaniel Hawthorne anonymously published his first novel, Fanshawe, at his own expense.

16 March 1850: Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel about a female...

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16 March 1850

Nathaniel Hawthorne 's novel about a female adulteress, The Scarlet Letter, was published.

9 April 1851: Nathaniel Hawthorne published in Boston The...

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9 April 1851

Nathaniel Hawthorne published in BostonThe House of the Seven Gables, a novel exploring Puritan guilt.

Spring 1852: Samuel Orchart Beeton (later the husband...

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Spring 1852

Samuel Orchart Beeton (later the husband of Isabella Mary Beeton) began publishing the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, which stimulated the spread of home dressmaking.

By 7 July 1852: Nathaniel Hawthorne published The Blithedale...

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By 7 July 1852

Nathaniel Hawthorne published The Blithedale Romance, in two volumes.

28 February 1860: Nathaniel Hawthorne published Transformation:...

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28 February 1860

Nathaniel Hawthorne published Transformation: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni in three volumes.

19 May 1864: Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist, died at Pemigewasset...

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19 May 1864

Nathaniel Hawthorne , novelist, died at Pemigewasset House, Plymouth, New Hampshire, USA.

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