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Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Charles Osgood, 1840
(courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum)
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Hawthorne News and Events
Call for Papers
for Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Meeting at Bowdoin College in June 2008
Hawthorne in the New Yorker
Hawthorne has made an appearance of sorts in two issues of the New
Yorker recently. The June 25, 2007 issue includes a poem by Lawrence
Raab entitled “Hawthorne
on His Way Home,” and the January 14, 2008 issue includes a
short story by E. L. Doctorow entitled “Wakefield”
which is a contemporary version of Hawthorne’s story by the same
name.
Paintings by Sophia Peabody
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA,
has acquired two paintings by Sophia Peabody and has allowed us to post
them on our website along with one other in their collection of four paintings
by Sophia Peabody.
Recommended new related web site:
John Greenleaf Whittier
Recommended new publication:
Hawthorne
in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from
Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates
by Ronald A Bosco (Editor), Jillmarie Murphy (Editor), University of Iowa
Press, June 2007. [Press Release]
Re-interment
of Sophia and Una Hawthorne was on June 26, 2006 at 2:30 pm at
the Old Manse in Concord, MA.
Photographs (view1,
view2,
and view3)
of gravestones after the ceremony. Photographs of the ceremony (view1,
view2,
view3,
view4).
Order a Hawthorne in Salem DVD
for $7.00 plus shipping/handling/tax. Three short videos on Hawthorne's
life and two of his works.
To celebrate the Hawthorne bicentennial, we created a 8 ½ x 11
½ poster available
for donations to the website.
Order Books
by or about Hawthorne and His Contemporaries as well other items related
to Hawthorne
In association with Amazon, the Hawthorne in Salem Website is now offering
our visitors a chance to purchase books on or about Hawthorne and his
contemporaries by clicking on links from our site.In addition, we have
created a list of all books mentioned on our Website that are available
for purchase as well as other books by or about Hawthorne and his contemporaries
available through Amazon which we recommend. Purchasing a book through
our site will assist North Shore Community College in maintaining and
expanding the site.
Featured Books:
See the article
entitled "Hawthorne's Virtual Salem" by Melanie Abrams listed
under Literary Landmarks in the July/August 2004 issue of Humanities
magazine.
WBUR
special on Nathaniel Hawthorne for his 200th birthday (photo tour,
interview with Phillip McFarland, author of Hawthorne in Concord, and
a discussion on why Hawthorne's works are relevant in today's world)
Events at the House of the Seven Gables, Salem MA.
The
Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
of Japan...more
"Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne"
by Alison Hawthorne Deming.
In her poem from Science and Other Poems, poet and essayist Alison
Hawthorne Deming reflects upon her great-great grandfather's life and
personality. (special thanks to Alison Hawthorne Deming for granting permission
to post this poem)
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- a novel which the story of The Scarlet Letter and beyond
from the point of view of Pearl.
