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Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Charles Osgood, 1841 (Peabody Essex Museum). Nathaniel Hathorne, as his name was originally spelled, was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts; his birthplace is preserved and open to the public. [3]
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 Washington family are descended from Crínán "the Thane" of Dunkeld (†1045), lay abbot and son-in-law of Malcolm II of Scotland. [3] [4] [5] [better source needed] In 1183, his descendant Sir William de Hertburn (originally William Bayard) [6] traded his manor of Hertburn (modern-day Hartburn) for that of Wessyington in County Durham near the River Wear.
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).
Hawthorne, c. 1848. The House of the Seven Gables was Hawthorne's follow-up to his highly successful novel The Scarlet Letter. He began writing it while living in Lenox, Massachusetts, in August 1850. By October, he had chosen the title and it was advertised as forthcoming, though the author complained of his slow progress a month later: "I ...
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, [a] at Popes Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia. [3] He was the first of six children of Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. [4] His father was a justice of the peace and a prominent public figure who had four additional children from his first marriage to Jane Butler. [5]
Samuel Washington, George Washington's younger brother, was buried in an unmarked grave at the cemetery at his Harewood estate (an interior view is pictured above) near Charles Town, West Virginia.
Prior to the marriage, George had shown romantic interest in Hawthorne's sister Una. Their brother Julian Hawthorne used the love triangle as an inspiration for his first novel, Bressant, in 1873. [8] In 1876, the Lathrops had a son, Francis. Rose Hawthorne tried to become an author in her own right, much like her husband, father, and brother.