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=Hawthorne, Julian.= _Ms._, 1846- ----. Son of N. Hawthorne, _infra_.
A novelist who has inherited much of his father’s originality, but
whose work is often careless and hasty in construction and of ephemeral
interest only. Bressant; Garth; Dust; Idolatry; Fortune’s Fool; Beatrix
Randolph; Saxon Studies; Archibald Malmaison; Sebastian Strome;
Noble Blood; Love, or a Name; Mrs. Gainsborough’s Diamonds; David
Poindexter’s Disappearance, and Other Tales; A Dream and a Forgetting;
Confessions and Criticisms; Constance; Nathaniel Hawthorne and his
Wife; American Literature; The Trial of Gideon; Prince Saroni’s Wife;
Love is a Spirit. _Ap. Fu. He. Hou._
=Hawthorne, Nathaniel.= _Ms._, 1804-1864. A celebrated romancer, born
at Salem, Massachusetts. From 1838 to 1841 he held a position in the
Boston custom-house, was next a member of the Brook Farm Association,
and after 1843 a resident at Concord, Massachusetts, from time to time
until his death, though within that period he was surveyor of the
port of Salem, 1846-50, and from 1853 to 1857 consul at Liverpool.
Fanshawe; Twice-Told Tales; Grandfather’s Chair; Mosses from an Old
Manse; Famous Old People; Liberty Tree; Biographical Stories for
Children; The Scarlet Letter; True Stories; The House of the Seven
Gables; A Wonder-Book; The Snow Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales; The
Blithedale Romance; Tanglewood Tales; The Marble Faun, known in England
as Transformation; Our Old Home; Passages from American Note-Books;
English Note-Books; French and Italian Note-Books; Septimius Felton;
The Dolliver Romance; Dr. Grimshawe’s Secret. _See North American
Review, July, 1837, July, 1850, January, 1852; Blackwood’s Magazine,
November, 1863; Atlantic Monthly, May, 1860; Lathrop’s Study of
Hawthorne; James’s Hawthorne; Hawthorne Index; Lowell’s Fable for
Critics; Personal Recollections of, by H. N. Bridge; Nathaniel
Hawthorne and His Wife, by J. Hawthorne; Some Memories of Hawthorne, by
Mrs. R. H. Lathrop; Appleton’s American Biography; Nichol’s American
Literature; Richardson’s American Literature._ _Hou._
=Hawthorne, Mrs. Sophia [Peabody].= _Ms._, 1810-1871. Wife of N.
Hawthorne, _supra_, sister of Elizabeth Peabody, infra. Her only
publication was Notes in England and Italy. _Hou._
=Hay, John.= _Ind._, 1838- ----. A writer who was Lincoln’s private
secretary, adjutant, and aide-de-camp during the Civil War, and also
served under Generals Hunter and Gillmore as major and assistant
adjutant-general, being brevetted colonel. He was subsequently in
the diplomatic service. Life of Abraham Lincoln (with J. G. Nicolay,
_infra_); Pike County Ballads, and Other Poems; Castilian Days, a
volume of travels. Of his dialect poems, Jim Bludso and Little Breeches
are the best known. _Cent. Hou._
=Hayden, Ferdinand Vanderveer.= _Ms._, 1827-1880. A professor of
geology in the University of Pennsylvania. Origin and Progress of the
United States Geological Survey of the Territories; The Yellowstone
National Park.
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