The North Shore Literary Trail: From Bradstreet's Andover to Hawthorne's Salem (History & Guide)

You've devoured their pages of verse and prose--now witness firsthand the inspiration for those perfectly penned lines of Longfellow, Frost and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Discover the strong feminist voice of Judith Sargent Murray as you stroll down Middle Street in Gloucester, or navigate the narrow, winding streets of Marblehead and flip through the eighteenth-century journals of the sailor Ashley Bowen. Plan a literary-themed cultural outing or simply take a closer look at your town's local landmarks. From the "gem-emblazoned shore" of "lovely Lynn" to the gleaming gables in Hawthorne's Salem, Bierfelt uncovers some of the North Shore's most precious literary treasures. Gloucester: Judith Sargent Murray; Virginia Lee Burton; Charles Olson; Vincent Ferrini; Joseph Garland; Jonathan Bayliss; Gregory Gibson Ipswich: Nathaniel Ward; Anne Bradstreet; William Hubbard; Thomas Franklin Waters; Ed Emberley; John Updike Essex: Reverend John Wise; Dana Story Lynn: Alonzo Lewis and the Lynn poets; Lydia Pinkham Nahant: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Marblehead: Ashley Bowen Amesbury: John Greenleaf Whittier Salisbury Newburyport: William Lloyd Garrison; Harriet Prescott Spofford; John Marquand; Rhina Espaillat; Andre Dubus III Peabody: Hannah Webster Foster Danvers Beverly: Oliver Wendell Holmes; Lucy LarcomEllery Sedgwick Hamilton: Mary Abigail Dodge Salem: Samuel Sewall; Reverend William Bentley; Nathaniel Bowditch; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and Mary Peabody Mann; Jones Very; Kate Tannatt Woods; Charlotte Forten Grimke; Lydia Pinkham Andover: Anne Bradstreet; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps & Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Haverhill: John Greenleaf Whittier; Winfield Townley Scott; Bob Montana; Andre Dubus II Lawrence: Robert Frost Lowell: Lucy Larcom; Jack Kerouac Appendix: A North Shore & Merrimack Valley book store sampler. Their pages of verse and prose have been read and enjoyed by generations; now witness firsthand the inspiration for those perfectly penned lines of Longfellow, Frost and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Discover the strong feminist voice of Judith Sargent Murray as you stroll down Middle Street in Gloucester, or navigate the narrow, winding streets of Marblehead and flip through the eighteenth-century journals of the sailor Ashley Bowen. Plan a literary themed cultural outing or simply take a closer look at your town's local landmarks. From the "gem-emblazoned shore" of "lovely Lynn" to the gleaming gables in Hawthorne's Salem, this book uncovers some of the North Shore's most precious literary treasures You've Devoured Their Pages of verse and prose now witness firsthand the inspiration for those perfectly penned lines of Longfellow, Frost and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Discover the strong feminist voice of Judith Sargent Murray as you stroll down Middle Street in Gloucester, or navigate the narrow, winding streets of Marblehead and flip through the eighteenth-century journals of the sailor Ashley Bowen. Plan a literary-themed cultural outing or simply take a closer look at your town's local landmarks. From the gem-emblazoned shore of lovely Lynn to the gleaming gables in Hawthorne's Salem, Bierfelt uncovers some of the North Shore's most precious literary treasures.