Bibliograph

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Salem is my dwelling place, a life of Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Edwin Haviland Miller

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Salem is my dwelling place

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

23583260

Responsibility statement

by Edwin Haviland Miller

Sub title

a life of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Summary

An account of Hawthorne's life and works using unpublished manuscripts of his family members and associates

Table Of Contents

"Salem is my dwelling place" -- The heritage: the Hathornes and the Mannings -- "The gentle boy" -- "Living upon Uncle Robert" -- Bowdoin College: venturing into the world -- Intercourse with the world: Fanshawe -- "Castle Dismal" -- Intercourse with the world: The early tales -- The Peabodys -- Two sisters in love -- Mary Silsbee: "Star of Salem" -- The comedy of manners ends happily -- Port-admiral at the Boston Custom-House -- "Thou art my type of womanly perfection" -- Book farm: "That abominable gold-mine" -- "I take this dove in bed and board -- Eden in Concord -- Margaret Fuller in Concord -- Intercourse with the world: Mosses from an old manse -- Salem, hail and farewell -- Intercourse with the world: The scarlet letter -- The Berkshires, 1850: enter Herman Melville -- Intercourse with the world: The house of the seven gables -- Lenox, 1851: intimations -- "Big hearts strike together" -- Intercourse with the world: The Blithedale romance -- President Pierce's "Prime minister" -- England: "I do not take root anywhere" -- Italy: "Dim reflections in my inward mirror" -- Intercourse with the world: The marble faun -- Concord, 1860-1862 -- The crack-up: the unfinished romances -- "The great, generous, brave heart beat no more."

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