Hawthorne in his own time : a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates / edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Jillmarie Murphy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bosco, Ronald A.

Murphy, Jillmarie.

Series:

Writers in their own time (University of Iowa Press)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

lii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2007]

Summary:

This first collection of personal reminiscences by those who knew Hawthorne intimately or knew about him through reliable secondary sources provides the real human history behind the successful writer.

Contents:

Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne [Reminiscences of My Brother from His Childhood through the 1830s] (1870-1871) 1

/ [Lucy Ann Sutton Bradley] [Childhood Encounters with Hawthorne in Salem] (1887) 13

/ Elizabeth Palmar Peabody [Epistolary Thoughts on Hawthorne, 1838-1886] 18

/ Ralph Waldo Emerson [Journal Thoughts on Hawthorne, 1838-1864] 30

/ [Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne] [First Years of Marriage at the Old Manse, 1842-1845] 36

/ [Annie Sawyer Downs] [Reminiscences of a Childhood in Concord in the 1840s] (1891) 54

/ [Henry Arthur Bright] [On First Meeting Hawthorne in America, 1852] 59

/ Fredrika Bremer from The Homes of the New World; Impressions of America (1853) 62

/ George William Curtis "Hawthorne" (1853) 64

/ [Francis Bennoch] [Vagabondizing with Hawthorne in England in 1856] 79

/ Rose Hawthorne Lathrop [My Earliest Memories of Father: Italy, 1858-1859] (1897) 85

/ Rebecca Harding Davis [Memories of the Hawthornes at the Wayside in 1862] (1900) 101

/ [Richard Holt Hutton] "Nathaniel Hawthorne" (1864) 110

/ Edward Dicey "Nathaniel Hawthorne" (1864) 115

/ Oliver Wendell Holmes "Hawthorne" (1864) 124

/ [James T. Fields] from "Our Whispering Galler)" (1871) 130

/ A[mos] Bronson Alcott from Concord Days (1872) 151

/ John S. C. Abbott "Bowdoin College-Nathaniel Hawthorne" (1875) 155

/ George Parsons Lathrop from A Study of Hawthorne (1876) 161

/ Henry James from Hawthorne (1879) 174

/ George B. Loring "Nathaniel Hawthorne" (1880) 187

/ [Franklin B. Sanborn] [A Conversation about Hawthorne at the Concord School of Philosophy in 1880] 195

/ Moncure Daniel Conway "Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne" (1882) 207

/ William Dean Howells "My First Visit to New England" (1894) 216

/ Frank Preston Stearns from Sketches from Concord and Appledore (1895) 233

/ Julian Hawthorne "Hawthorne's Last Years" (1904) 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references ( pages 249-[251]) and index.

Includes Chronology (p. xliii-lii)

ISBN:

1587295830

9781587295836

OCLC:

140418472