#nathanielhawthorne

[enchantedbook]

From the book "Tanglewood Tales: For Girls and Boys" (1921), a collection of Greek myths by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Illustration by Virginia Frances Sterrett.

[whencyclopedia]

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American author of novels and short stories, who produced some of the most memorable works of American literature: the novels The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables as well as the short stories Young Goodman Brown and My Kinsman, Major Molineaux, among many others.

Early Life

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4 July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the second of three children; he had two sisters Elizabeth and Louisa. His early life was spent reading, most often alone. When Hawthorne was four years old in 1808, his father died of yellow fever, causing his mother to become reclusive. His home's old, dusty library, with its stacks of histories and novels, was Hawthorne's salvation. This home of his youth later became the setting for The House of the Seven Gables. At the age of nine, he injured his foot. Housebound and bedridden, he spent the next two years recovering and reading. Robert Mead in his Literature of the American Nation wrote that Hawthorne, alone, sat in the old library reading, absorbing the history of his family and "the somber calamities of the seventeenth-century founders with their Indian wars and terror of witchcraft" (126).

Through family connections, in 1821, he entered Bowdoin College, graduating in 1825. At Bowdoin, he became acquainted with the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) and the future president Franklin Pierce (1804-1869). After graduating from Bowdoin College, Hawthorne returned to Salem with the goal of becoming a writer, leaving his home only for his daily long walks. He "disappeared like a stone dropped into a well" (Cowley, 1). However, the years after leaving Bowdoin can be considered a "literary apprenticeship," a time of reading and writing (Timko, 61). In 1828, he published his first novel Fanshawe: A Tale at his own expense. Later, he began to submit small pieces to the Salem Gazette.

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Güneş ışığı sonbaharın ihtişamına hayatın nefesi gibidir.

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[bidotorg]

Born on this day: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his classic novel The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850.

Hawthorne found inspiration for Hester Prynne's name while working as a customs surveyor at the Salem Custom House, where he discovered a worn piece of cloth with the embroidered letter "A" on it. This embroidered letter, in the context of the novel, symbolizes the adultery committed by Hester Prynne and serves as a public mark of her sin.

The story goes that Hawthorne discovered the embroidered cloth while exploring the attic of the Custom House. The cloth was believed to have been used as a real-life symbol of shame for a woman in the Puritan era. This discovery allegedly sparked Hawthorne's imagination, leading him to create the character of Hester Prynne and incorporate the scarlet letter prominently into his novel.

[roadtripnewengland]

First built in 1688 Salem’s #HouseoftheSevenGables is the oldest-surviving-timber-framed-mansion-house in North America. Made famous by #NathanielHawthorne’s 1851 novel of the same name, it’s also one of #SalemMA’s must-see stops. #igersnewengland #travelbloggers (at The House of the Seven Gables) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0tpz4il1XJ/?igshid=1u5i6521xhyyi

[littlepennydreadful]

Giving a little Halloween shout out to one of my favorite Victorian Goth writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne! I remember going to Salem, Massachusetts and visiting the house from "The House of the Seven Gables", as a kid and being totally scared (in a good way, of course). This a a portrait I did a few years ago of the "Scarlet Letter" author. He is pretty intense looking don't you think? “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” Nathaniel Hawthorne https://www.instagram.com/p/BpITJAClf-K/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=48ydouia84qg

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” Nathaniel Hawthorne

Debra Styer, The House of the Seven Hawthorne's", 2015

Print available here in my shop. http://www.debrastyer.com/debra-styer-illustration-shop/nathaniel-hawthorne-literary-portrait

[artemisia319]

"Friend, my mind is made up. Not another step will I budge on this errand." Amico mio, ho deciso. Non farò nessun altro passo in questa missione.

[canigetanamen]

The Ocean

The Ocean has its silent caves,

Deep, quiet, and alone;

Though there be fury on the waves,

Beneath them there is none.

The awful spirits of the deep

Hold their communion there;

And there are those for whom we weep,

The young, the bright, the fair.

Calmly the wearied seamen rest

Beneath their own blue sea.

The ocean solitudes are blest,

For there is purity.

The earth has guilt, the earth has care,

Unquiet are its graves;

But peaceful sleep is ever there,

Beneath the dark blue waves.