Nathaniel Hawthorne : The English Experience, 1853-1864 / Raymona E. Hull.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hull, Raymona E., 1907- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consuls--Biography.

Consuls.

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

Novelists, American.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864--Homes and haunts--England.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864--Last years.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 307 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980.

Summary:

In 1853, when he was forty-nine and at the height of hisliterary career, Nathaniel Hawthorne accepted the post of U.S.consul at Liverpool, England, as a reward for writing the campaignbiography of his college friend President Franklin Pierce.Hawthorne's departure for Europe marked a turning point in hislife. While <em>Our Old Home</em>, shrewd essays on hisobservations in England, <em>The Marble Faun</em>, a romance set inItaly, and the <em>English Notebooks</em> and <em>French andItalian Notebooks</em> were all results of his European residence,he returned to Concord in 1860 frustrated, depressed, and sick. Hedied in 1864.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Departure and Arrival

2 Liverpool, 1853

3 Rock Ferry, 1853-1855

4 Leamington, Lisbon, and London, 1855-1856

5 Southport, 1856-1857

6 Manchester, Leamington, and London, 1857-1858

7 Italian Interlude, 1858-1859

8 England Again: Yorkshire, Leamington, and Bath, 1859-1860

9 Concord Once More: Memories of "Our Old Home", 1860-1864

10 Epilogue

Notes

Appendix: Biographical Sketches

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822976271