English 10 Honors - Summer Reading
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Timeline:
Timeline:
- 07/04/1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the descendent of a long line of Puritan ancestors, including John Hathorne, a presiding magistrate in the Salem witch trials
- Approx 1808 Father lost at sea
- 1828 Hawthorne`s first novel, FANSHAWE, appeared anonymously at his own expense
- 1836 He edited the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge in Boston
- 1837 compiled PETER PARLEY`S UNIVERSAL HISTORY for children.
- 1837 The second, expanded edition of TWICE TOLD TALES, was praised by Edgar Allan Poe in Graham`s Magazine.
- 1839 insufficient earnings as a writer forced Hawthorne to enter a career as a Boston Custom House measurer.
- 1841 GRANDFATHER`S CHAIR
- 1841 FAMOUS OLD PEOPLE
- 1841 LIBERTY TREE
- 1842 His writing finally amassed Hawthorne a sufficient income for him to marry Sophia Peabody and move to The Manse in Concord, which was at that time the center of the Transcendental movement
- 1842 BIOGRAPHICAL STORIES FOR CHILDREN
- 1842 Hawthorne became friends with the Transcendentalists in Concord, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, who also drew on the Puritan legacy
- 1845 returned to Salem, where he was appointed surveyor of the Boston Custom House by President James Polk
- 1846 Once again, Hawthorne was unable to earn a living as a writer and in 1846 he was appointed surveyor of the Port of Salem
- 1850 THE SCARLET LETTER
- 1851 THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES
- 1851 THE SNOW IMAGE
- 1852 THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE
- 1860 THE MARBLE FAUN
- 1863 OUR OLD HOME
- 1864 Hawthorne passed away on May 19, 1864 in Plymouth, New Hampshire after a long period of illness in which he suffered severe bouts of dementia
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