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Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Charles Osgood, 1840
(courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum)
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Hawthorne Online Summer Course
North Shore Community College is offering a summer online course on Hawthorne's short stories from May 18 through June 25. The course, entitled Hawthorne in Cultural Context: Stories, Art and Artifact, uses a text of Hawthorne's tales and sketches as well as the resources of the Hawthorne in Salem Website and may be taken for three humanities credits or audited.
You may enroll in the course by going to: www.northshore.edu.
In the boxes under Find Courses, select summer 2009 and Interdisciplinary
Studies (under credit courses), then scroll down to the Hawthorne course.
You may contact Terri Whitney, twhitney@northshore.edu,
with any questions.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Summer Meeting, Concord, MA, June 10-13, 2010
More information on their website
Images from Bowdoin College
The Bowdoin College Library has kindly allowed us to post images of some of the items from their Nathaniel Hawthorne collection on our Website which they exhibited in July 2008 at the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society meeting at Bowdoin. These images include a variety of documents relating to Hawthorne’s student days at Bowdoin as well as the first page of Fanshawe and the ivory letter opener which Hawthorne used when he served as surveyor at the Salem Customs House.
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Featured Books:
- Milder, Robert and Randall Fuller, eds. The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His
Notebooks. Columbus: The Ohio State UP, 2009. [reviewed by John Idol in Nathaniel
Hawthorne Review. 35.2, Fall 2009]
- Mukai, Kumiko. Hawthorne's Visual Artists and the Pursuit of a Transatlantic Aesthetics NY: Peter Lang, 2008. [reviewed by David Greven in Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. 35.2,
Fall 2009]
- Reynolds, Larry J. Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics. Ann
Arbor: U of Michigan P., 2008. [reviewed by Leland S. Person in Nathaniel Hawthorne
Review. 35.2, Fall 2009]
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