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	Nathaniel Hawthorne, Art Print Poster Text: “Life is made up of marble and mud.” The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne earned his greatest fame for two novels: The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851). But he was also a gifted short story writer, publishing more than 100 stories and sketches for magazines between 1825 an 1850. Many of his stories dealt with moral conflicts in colonial New England, where he spent much of his life. Most were collected in Twice-Told Tales (1837, 1842), Mosses from an Old Manse (1846), and The Snow Image (1851). In his stories, Hawthorne often explored such themes as the power of the imagination, the conflict between good an evil, and the role of the artist. His writing has been compared with that of Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving, two other great 19th-centruy writers. As a young man, Hawthorne led a fairly quiet, secluded life in his birthplace of Salem, Massachusetts, His first novel, Fanshawe, was published in 1828 at his own expense, In 1842, he married and moved to Concord, Massachusetts, where he continued writing. Then he lived in both England and Italy for a time before returning to Concord in 1860. His last major novel, The Marble Faun, was published that year. Hawthorne died in Concord in 1864 at the age of 59. • more 19th Century American Authors posters
	Nathaniel Hawthorne American Authors Bio Timeline Poster Nathaniel Hawthorne, novelist and short-story writer, is most famous for his novel The Scarlet Letter. His fiction is noted for its symbolism and its exploration of moral and spiritual conflicts. Hawthorne's writing had a profound effect on writers of his time and continues to influence wrtiers today. • more American Authors Timeline posters
	Nathaniel Hawthorne Age of 58, Giclee Print Nathaniel Hawthorne Giclee Print
	Salem, MA, Exterior View of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Birthplace, Photographic Print Statue of Author Nathaniel Hawthorne, Photographic Print
	Hawthorne's Wayside Concord, MA Giclee Print The Old Manse, Concord Mass., Art Print
	Hawthorne's Cottage at Tanglewood Where He Wrote the House of the Seven Gables, Photographic Print House of the Seven Gables, Salem, Mass. Art Print
	Hester Prynne Wearing the Scarlet Letter A in a Scene from Hawthorne's Novel, Giclee Print Scarlet Letter Book Cover, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Giclee Print • Color “Red” posters • book cover posters Scarlet Letter Playbill, Masterprint
	Literary Terms: Irony Irony - an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually stated. “Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.” The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne • more Literary Terms posters
	The Puritan Spirit, New England Church, November 23, 1942, Photographic Print New England Colonies - 1650 Poster Text: During the first half of the 17th century, thousands of English families creossed the Atlantic Ocean to escape the hardships of living in England, They were fleeing religious persecution and strict rule of King James I and, later, his son Charles I. Both believed in the “divine rights of kings” and ruled with absolute power. And both kings threatened anyone who questioned their authority or the power of the English church. Unhappy with their life in England, many families chose to make the dangerous journey across the Arlantic to the New World, where they hoped to find peace and religious freedom. Although life in the rugged New England wilderness was hard, families created strong communities there. Men hunted, cleared the land, built homes, and formed churches. And women, often with the help of their children, grew vegetables, dried fish, and raised animals for food and clothing, By 1650, New England was the richest region in the colonies. ... • more Colonial America Posters

• “I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a row of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.” ~ Mosses from and Old Manse
• “Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.”
• “She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.” ~ The Scarlet Letter
• “Life is made up of marble and mud.” ~ The House of the Seven Gables
• “There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.”

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE : BOOKS/VIDEO

Hawthorne: A Life by Brenda Wineapple - Handsome, reserved, almost frighteningly aloof until he was approached, then playful, cordial, Nathaniel Hawthorne was as mercurial and double-edged as his writing. “Deep as Dante,” Herman Melville said.

Hawthorne himself declared that he was not “one of those supremely hospitable people who serve up their own hearts, delicately fried, with brain sauce, as a tidbit” for the public. Yet those who knew him best often took the opposite position. “He always puts himself in his books,” said his sister-in-law Mary Mann, “he cannot help it.” His life, like his work, was extraordinary, a play of light and shadow.

In this major new biography of Hawthorne, the first in more than a decade, brings him brilliantly alive: an exquisite writer who shoveled dung in an attempt to found a new utopia at Brook Farm and then excoriated the community (or his attraction to it) in caustic satire; the confidant of Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States and arguably one of its worst; friend to Emerson and Thoreau and Melville who, unlike them, made fun of Abraham Lincoln and who, also unlike them, wrote compellingly of women, deeply identifying with them–he was the first major American writer to create erotic female characters. Those vibrant, independent women continue to haunt the imagination, although Hawthorne often punishes, humiliates, or kills them, as if exorcising that which enthralls.

Here is the man rooted in Salem, Massachusetts, of an old pre-Revolutionary family, reared partly in the wilds of western Maine, then schooled along with Longfellow at Bowdoin College. Here are his idyllic marriage to the youngest and prettiest of the Peabody sisters and his longtime friendships, including with Margaret Fuller, the notorious feminist writer and intellectual.

Here too is Hawthorne at the end of his days, revered as a genius, but considered as well to be an embarrassing puzzle by the Boston intelligentsia, isolated by fiercely held political loyalties that placed him against the Civil War and the currents of his time.

Nathaniel Hawthorne : Collected Novels: Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun - Here in one volume are all five of Nathaniel Hawthorne's world-famous novels. "The House of the Seven Gables" moves across 150 years from an ancestral crime condoned by the Puritan theocracy to a new beginning in the bustling and democratic Jacksonian era. Hawthorne's masterpiece, “The Scarlet Letter,” is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. “The Blithedale Romance” explores the perils, which Hawthorne knew at first hand, of living in a utopian community, and the inextricability of political, personal, and sexual desires. “Fanshawe” is an engrossing apprentice work which Hawthorne published anonymously and later sought to suppress.“The Marble Faun,” his last finished novel, involves mystery, murder, and romance among American artists in Rome.

Nathaniels Hawthorne's Tales: Authoritative Tests, Backgrounds, Criticism

Hawthorne Audio Collection -

Everyday Life in the 1800s:
A Guide for Wriers, Students, and Historians -The Everyday Life series helps writers, students and researchers save valuable time and bring richness and historical accuracy to their work. Each guide describes the food, clothes, customs, slang, occupations, religions, politics and other historical details that are so often difficult to find.

LINKS FOR LEARNING : NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Hawthorne in Salem - Website collaborative effort of North Shore Community College in Danvers, MA, Peabody Essex Museum, the House of the Seven Gables Historic Site, and the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.

Nathaniel Hawthorne Bio- Wikipedia

Nathaniel Hawthorne Bio- Eldritch Press

The Old Manse - Home to Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne early married life.

The Wayside - Only house Hawthorne ever owned. Also the childhood home of Louisa May Alcott (Hillside).