Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hawthorne said that he found the heroine noble.

She much preferred reading to full-scale theatrical productions: The happiness of reading Shakespeare's heavenly imaginations is so far beyond all the excitement of acting them. The readings were popular and lucrative. Longfellow wrote a...

Willa Cather , in her preface to a collection of SOJ 's Best Stories (1925), reflected a common critical perception in suggesting that Jewett would go down in literary history as a regional writer: the...

Editorial policy was to avoid anything controversial in mainstream politics. The magazine never mentioned the Civil War during the course of the conflict. In contrast to the Ladies' Magazine, the new one had a...

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...

MF 's circle of friends and associates included many of the of the pre-eminent thinkers and writers of her day. She maintained a vision of friendship that demanded total loyalty and sought integrity, sensitivity, and...

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...

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...

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...

When it first appeared, RHD 's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community.Emily Dickinson wrote to her sister-in-law for a copy. Davis's publisher...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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 .