Nathaniel Hawthorne

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...

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...

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...

CMS received considerable critical and popular acclaim during her lifetime: Nathaniel Hawthorne described her as our most truthful novelist, and her literary admirers also included James Fenimore Cooper and Edgar Allan Poe . Her...

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...

Hawthorne said that he found the heroine noble.

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...

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 .

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...

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...

FAK , under the pseudonym Berkeley Aikin, published a novel entitled The Old, Old Story, Love; she sent a presentation copy to Nathaniel Hawthorne .

The Gadfly has been compared to Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter, 1850, for its picture of theocratic oppression, and to Emma, Baroness Orczy 's The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1905, as adventure writing.

The Athenæum said that in light of this novel, Mrs. Stowe is a mere child when compared with her countrymanNathaniel Hawthorne .

Geraldine Jewsbury 's review in the Athenæum was merciless (although she guessed the gender of the author). She called the novel an eminently vulgar book, written apparently with great ease and satisfaction to herself.

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...