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Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Born in 1804 Salem, Massachusetts. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Puritan ancestors Witch-hunting John Hathorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Bowdoin College in 1825 Publishes Fanshawe anonymously in 1928 “The Minister’s Black Veil” “Young Goodman Brown”
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Born in 1804 Salem, Massachusetts
Nathaniel Hawthorne Puritan ancestors Witch-hunting John Hathorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne Bowdoin College in 1825 Publishes Fanshawe anonymously in 1928 “The Minister’s Black Veil” “Young Goodman Brown” Twice Told Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne Brook Farm in 1841
Nathaniel Hawthorne Marries Sophia Peabody in 1842
Nathaniel Hawthorne Salem Custom House
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (1850) Sold 2500 copies in 10 days Best seller “No more perfect work of the American imagination,” D.H. Lawrence
Nathaniel Hawthorne Romanticism Global artistic movement Europe in late 1700s North America 1800s Individual > Society Nature > Industry Emotion/Intuition > Reason A “Romance”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Transcendentalism Romanticism on Steroids Spiritual “transcends” the physical Individual experience > doctrine Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Sophia Peabody…