The Life and Genius of Nathaniel HawthorneStearns, Frank Preston
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The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Stearns, Frank Preston
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864; Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Biography
Peter Parley’s Universal History, Boston, 1837. The Gentle Boy: A
Thrice-Told Tale, Boston, 1839. Grandfather’s Chair: A History for
Youth, Boston, 1841. Famous Old People: or Grandfather’s Chair II,
Boston, 1841. Liberty Tree: The Last Words of Grandfather’s Chair,
Boston, 1841. Biographical Stories for Children, Boston, 1842.
Historical Tales for Youth, Boston, 1842. The Celestial Railroad,
Boston, 1843. Mosses from an Old Manse, New York, 1846, 1851. The
Scarlet Letter, Boston, 1850. True Stories from History and Biography,
Boston, 1851. The House of the Seven Gables, Boston, 1852. A Wonder-Book
for Girls and Boys, Boston, 1851. Another edition, Boston, 1857.
The Snow-Image and Other Tales, Boston, 1852. Another edition, Boston
The Blithedale Romance, Boston, 1852. Life of Franklin Pierce, Boston,
1852. Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys, Boston, 1853. Transformation,
or the Romance of Monte Beni, Smith & Elder, London, 1860. The Marble
Faun, or the Romance of Monte Beni, Boston, 1860. Our Old Home, Boston,
1863.
_A complete list of Hawthorne’s contributions to American magazines will
be found in the appendix to Conway’s “Life of Hawthorne.”_
Mrs. Emerson and Mrs. Hawthorne [Footnote: Read at the Emerson Club, at
Boston, January 2, 1906]
In 1892, when I was constructing the volume known as “Sketches from
Concord and Appledore,” I said in comparing Emerson with Hawthorne that
one was like _day_, and the other like _night_. I was not aware that
four years earlier M. D. Conway had made a similar statement in his
Life of Hawthorne, which was published in London. Miss Rebecca Manning,
Hawthorne’s own cousin, still living at the age of eighty and an
admirable old lady, distinctly confirms my statement, that “wherever
Hawthorne went he carried twilight with him.” Emerson, on the contrary,
was of a sanguine temperament and an essentially sunny nature. His
writings are full of good cheer, and the opening of his Divinity School
Address is as full of summer sunshine as the finest July day. It was
only necessary to see him look at the sunshine from his own porch to
recognize how it penetrated into the depths of his nature.
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