Hawthorne in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life,Drawn from Recollections,Interviews, and Memoirs by Family,Friends, and Associates (Writers in Their Own Time)

" Hawthorne in His Own Time is better than a biography: it provides canny first-hand accounts of an author often considered unknowable, along with key literary assessments of the era, allowing readers to sift through the evidence and form their own judgments. Students, scholars, and lovers of the Great Romancer's work will all find much of value in this collection of gems."Megan Marshall, author of The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism At his death, Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864) was universally acknowledged in America and England as "the Great Romancer." Novels such as The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables and stories published in such collections as Twice-Told Tales continue to capture the minds and imaginations of readers and critics to this day. Harder to capture, however, were the character and personality of the man himself. So few of the essays that appeared in the two years after his death offered new insights into his life, art, and reputation that Hawthorne seemed fated to premature obscurity or, at least, permanent misrepresentation. This first collection of personal reminiscences by those who knew Hawthorne intimately or knew about him through reliable secondary sources rescues him from these confusions and provides the real human history behind the successful writer. Remembrances from Elizabeth Peabody, Sophia Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and twenty others printed in Hawthorne in His Own Time follow him from his childhood in Salem, through his years of initial literary obscurity, his days in the Boston and Salem Custom Houses, his service as U.S. Consul to Liverpool and Manchester and his life in the Anglo-American communities at Rome and Florence, to his late years as the "Great Romancer." In their enlightening introduction, editors Ronald Bosco and Jillmarie Murphy assess the postmortem building of Hawthorne's reputation as well as his relationship to the prominent Transcendentalists, spiritualists, Swedenborgians, and other personalities of his time. By clarifying the sentimental associations between Hawthorne's writings and his actual personality and moving away from the critical review to the personal narrative, these artful and perceptive reminiscences tell the private and public story of a remarkable life. Chronology -- [reminiscences Of My Brother From His Childhood Through The 1830s] / Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne (1870-1871) -- [childhood Encounters With Hawthorne In Salem / Lucy Ann Sutton Bradley] (1887) -- [epistolary Thoughts On Hawthorne, 1838-1886] / Elizabeth Palmer Peabody -- [journal Thoughts On Hawthorne, 1838-1864] / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- [first Years Of Marriage At The Old Manse, 1842-1845 / Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne] -- Reminiscences Of A Childhood In Concord In The 1840s / Annie Sawyer Downs] (1891) -- [on First Meeting Hawthorne In America, 1852 / Henry Arthur Bright] -- From The Homes Of The New World ; Impressions Of America / Fredrika Bremer (1853) -- Hawthorne / George William Curtis (1853) -- [vagabondizing With Hawthorne In England In 1856 / Francis Bennoch] -- [my Earliest Memories Of Father: Italy, 1858-1859] / Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (1897) -- [memories Of The Hawthornes At The Wayside In 1862] / Rebecca Harding Davis (1900) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne / [richard Holt Hutton] (1864) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne / Edward Dicey (1864) -- Hawthorne / Oliver Wendell Holmes (1864) -- From Our Whispering Gallery / [james T. Fields] (1871) -- From Concord Days / A[mos] Bronson Alcott (1872) -- Bowdoin College -- Nathaniel Hawthorne / John S.c. Abbott (1875) -- From A Study Of Hawthorne / George Parsons Lathrop (1876) -- From Hawthorne / Henry James (1879) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne / George B. Loring (1880) -- [a Conversation About Hawthorne At The Concord School Of Philosophy In 1880 / Franklin B. Sanborn] -- Nathaniel And Sophia Hawthorne / Moncure Daniel Conway (1882) -- My First Visit To New England / William Dean Howells (1894) -- From Sketches From Concord And Appledore / Frank Preston Stearns (1895) -- Hawthorne's Last Years / Julian Hawthorne (1904). Edited By Ronald A. Bosco And Jillmarie Murphy. Includes Chronology (p. Xliii-lii) Includes Bibliographical References ( P. 249-[251]) And Index.

At his death, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was universally acknowledged in America and England as "the Great Romancer." Novels such as The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables and stories published in such collections as Twice-Told Tales continue to capture the minds and imaginations of readers and critics to this day. Harder to capture, however, were the character and personality of the man himself. So few of the essays that appeared in the two years after his death offered new insights into his life, art, and reputation that Hawthorne seemed fated to premature obscurity or, at least, permanent misrepresentation. This first collection of personal reminiscences by those who knew Hawthorne intimately or knew about him through reliable secondary sources rescues him from these confusions and provides the real human history behind the successful writer.

Remembrances from Elizabeth Peabody, Sophia Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and twenty others printed in Hawthorne in His Own Time follow him from his childhood in Salem, through his years of initial literary obscurity, his days in the Boston and Salem Custom Houses, his service as U.S. Consul to Liverpool and Manchester and his life in the Anglo-American communities at Rome and Florence, to his late years as the "Great Romancer."

In their enlightening introduction, editors Ronald Bosco and Jillmarie Murphy assess the postmortem building of Hawthorne's reputation as well as his relationship to the prominent Transcendentalists, spiritualists, Swedenborgians, and other personalities of his time. By clarifying the sentimental associations between Hawthorne's writings and his actual personality and moving away from the critical review to the personal narrative, these artful and perceptive reminiscences tell the private and public story of a remarkable life.

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