The Yarn of a Yankee privateer / edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne, introduction by Clifford Smyth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browne, Benjamin Frederick, 1793-1873.

Contributor:

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

Smyth, Clifford, 1866-

Smyth, Clifford, 1866- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dartmoor Prison.

History.

United States--History--War of 1812--Personal narratives.

United States.

United States--History--War of 1812--Prisoners and prisons.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xxii, 308 pages : frontispiece (portrait), plates (1 double), double facsimile ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Funk & Wagnalls company, 1926.

Notes:

Originally published, except one instalment, in "The United States magazine and Democratic review", January to September, 1846. The running title given to the serial was "Papers of an old Dartmoor prisoner, edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne". The unpublished instalment was found in manuscript among Hawthorne's papers. It is thought that the author of the story may have been John Lord, brother of Hawthorne's grandmother, Miriam (Lord) Manning. He was taken prisoner by the British in the war of 1812, and confined in Dartmoor prison.

Originally published except one instalment, in "The United States magazine and Democratic review," January to September, 1846. The running title given to the serial was "Papers of an old Dartmoor prisoner, edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne." The unpublished instalment was found in manuscript among Hawthorne's papers.

For discussion of authorship, see the Literary digest for April 9, 1927.

OCLC:

1024023