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Hawthorne's father Nathaniel Hathorne Sr. was a sea captain who died in 1808 of yellow fever in Dutch Suriname; [6] he had been a member of the East India Marine Society. [7] After his death, his widow moved with young Nathaniel, his older sister Elizabeth , and their younger sister Louisa to live with relatives named the Mannings in Salem, [ 8 ...
Julian Hawthorne was the second child [1] of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne. He was born June 22, 1846, at 14 Mall Street in Salem, Massachusetts. [2] It was shortly after sunrise [3] and his father wrote to his sister:
The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home.
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).
Hathorne's father, Major William Hathorne, was among the early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s and held a number of military and political positions for several decades. John was born in Salem in August 1641; his father's surviving records give the date as August 4, but the records of the First Church of Salem indicate he ...
Hawthorne was born on March 7, 1802, to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning in Salem, Massachusetts. She spent her early years living with her mother, brother, and paternal grandmother while her father worked as a ship's captain. [1] Called Ebe by her family, Hawthorne grew up in a household that encouraged education and reading.
The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. [2] Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.
His grandfather was a founder of the college [13] and his father was a trustee. [10] There Longfellow met Nathaniel Hawthorne who became his lifelong friend. [14] He boarded with a clergyman for a time before rooming on the third floor [15] in 1823 of what is now known as Winthrop Hall. [16]