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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)


 

[Nathaniel Hawthorne]

 

American Literature Sites  

Selected Bibliography: The Blithedale Romance
Discussion Questions for The Blithedale Romance
Selected Bibliography: "My Kinsman, Major Molineux"
Hawthorne crossword puzzle.

Nathaniel Hawthorne Society. This site is essential for learning about the current state of Hawthorne studies. 
Hawthorne in Salem. This site at North Shore Community College includes biographical and architectural information as well as pictures of sites associated with Hawthorne, including the Custom House. 
Hawthorne Home Page. Eric Eldred's excellent Hawthorne site at Eldritch Press contains all of Hawthorne's works, notes on the writings, annotated editions,and lots of other information. This is an essential site for those working on Hawthorne.
The Scarlet Letter: The Classic Text. This site at the University of Wisconsin provides background information and critical essays.
Hawthorne in the Columbia Encyclopedia.This site at bartleby.com has essays by 20th-century critics such as Carl Van Doren.
Hawthorne and Melville. This page at the Melville site has a great deal of information about the friendship between these two men.
Biographical Sketch of Hawthorne from the Heath Anthology site.

Review of a new biography, Hawthorne in Concord.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Bicentennial Exhibition at the Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex museum includes an interactive feature on Hawthorne and his sister's handwritten 1820 newspaper, The Spectator.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection at Bowdoin College.
EXPOSING SCARLET: A VISUAL RESPONSE TO THE SCARLET LETTER SEPTEMBER 10- OCTOBER 31 is an exhibition at the Boston Center for the Arts. From the site description: "Inspired by the Bicentennial celebration of Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and work, fourteen artists have been invited to explore the conceptual and visual evocations of Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter. Working in a range of media spanning from installation to painting, these artists will inquire into whether, and how, the issues raised in the novel are relevant in today's society."

Portrait of Hawthorne by Charles Osgood (1840) courtesy of the Peabody-EssexMuseum, Salem, MA
Daguerreotype of Hawthorne circa 1850-55 courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Hawthorne
Selected Works Available Online
Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne at Eric Eldred's Eldritch Press Hawthorne site. Links updated 1/13/04.

The Scarlet Letter (carefully annotated HTML edition from Eric Eldred) (1850)

"Hawthorne and His Mosses" (New York Literary World, August 17 and 24, 1850)
The House of the Seven Gables (1851) (HTML; Eric Eldred)

The Blithedale Romance (1852)
The Marble Faun (1860)
Twice-Told Tales (1837, 1851)
Mosses from an Old Manse (1846, 1854) (HTML; Eric Eldred)

The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales (1852)
TheLife of Franklin Pierce (1852)
"Chiefly About War Matters" (1862)
The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair, 1840
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1852)
Tanglewood Tales (1853)
"The Celestial Railroad"




Comments to D. Campbell.
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