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After its publication, Hawthorne said, "It sold finely and seems to have pleased a good many people". [10] Hawthorne's friend Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called it "a weird, wild book, like all he writes." [8] Fanny Kemble reported that the book caused a sensation in England equal to Jane Eyre. [11]
According to Hawthorne scholar Rita K. Gollin, the "definitive edition" [127] of Hawthorne's works is The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by William Charvat and others, published by The Ohio State University Press in twenty-three volumes between 1962 and 1997. [128]
Hawthorne felt compelled to abandon novels, instead focusing on short stories, many of which he published anonymously in The Token annual gift book between 1830 and 1838. [7] Fanshawe was so rare and Hawthorne was so secretive about his early attempt at a novel that after his death his wife, Sophia , insisted her husband had never written a ...
William Hathorne (c. 1606 – 1681) was a New England politician, judge and merchant who was Commissioner for Massachusetts Bay and Speaker of the General Court. He arrived in America on the ship Arbella , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and is the first American ancestor of author Nathaniel Hawthorne (who added the "w" to the spelling of his last name).
Julian Hawthorne (June 22, 1846 – July 14, 1934) was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous poems, novels, short stories, mysteries and detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies, and histories.
The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, also known by the British title Transformation, was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and was published in 1860. The Marble Faun , written on the eve of the American Civil War , is set in a fantastical Italy.
John was the great-great-grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne (born "Hathorne"), author of many works, including The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. The latter work, set in Salem, contains allusions to the witch trials in its history of the house.
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