Hawthorne in His Own Time

by Bosco, Ronald A.

• ISBN13: 9781587295836
• ISBN10: 1587295830
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr

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. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Chronology	p. xliii
[Reminiscences of My Brother from His Childhood through the 1830s] (1870-1871)	p. 1
[Childhood Encounters with Hawthorne in Salem] (1887)	p. 13
[Epistolary Thoughts on Hawthorne, 1838-1886]	p. 18
[Journal Thoughts on Hawthorne, 1838-1864]	p. 30
[First Years of Marriage at the Old Manse, 1842-1845]	p. 36
[Reminiscences of a Childhood in Concord in the 1840s] (1891)	p. 54
[On First Meeting Hawthorne in America, 1852]	p. 59
from The Homes of the New World; Impressions of America (1853)	p. 62
"Hawthorne" (1853)	p. 64
[Vagabondizing with Hawthorne in England in 1856]	p. 79
[My Earliest Memories of Father: Italy, 1858-1859] (1897)	p. 85
[Memories of the Hawthornes at the Wayside in 1862] (1900)	p. 101
"Nathaniel Hawthorne" (1864)	p. 110
"Nathaniel Hawthorne" (1864)	p. 115
"Hawthorne" (1864)	p. 124
from "Our Whispering Galler)" (1871)	p. 130
from Concord Days (1872)	p. 151
"Bowdoin College-Nathaniel Hawthorne" (1875)	p. 155
from A Study of Hawthorne (1876)	p. 161
from Hawthorne (1879)	p. 174
"Nathaniel Hawthorne" (1880)	p. 187
[A Conversation about Hawthorne at the Concord School of Philosophy in 1880]	p. 195
"Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne" (1882)	p. 207
"My First Visit to New England" (1894)	p. 216
from Sketches from Concord and Appledore (1895)	p. 233
"Hawthorne's Last Years" (1904)	p. 237
Permissions	p. 247
Works Cited	p. 249
Index	p. 253
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