Nathaniel Hawthorne died in 1864, in the midst of the Civil War, a social revolution which he profoundly distrusted; he was traveling in New Hampshire for his health with his old college friend ...

If they postponed for a time the act of writing, they supplied ample material for literary work in the ... Wherein this excellence in Hawthorne's style consists it is not easy to say; the charm ...

home of several literary figures, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, and Margaret Sidney. "It's possible that 'The Scarlet Letter,' or even 'Little Women,' could have been written ...