Title

Hawthorne: a life.

Description

Brenda Wineapple's biographical work about Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Identifier

1131279

375400443

Creator

Wineapple, Brenda

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2003

Program air date: January 4, 2004

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Extensive notes on front and back endpapers, provides a chronology of events in Hawthorne's life, the birth dates of his sister and brother-in-laws, the death dates of Hawthorne's children, details of his romantic relationships and marriage, financial problems, inspiration for the Scarlett Letter, friends, temperament, and views on the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln. Annotations by Brian Lamb in the margins and underlining of pertinent phrases throughout the book. Examples: "delicate health," "a voracious reader," "concealed affair," "Emerson, Thoreau, Longfellow," and "H. ill again."

Subject

"Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864."

"Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864--Relations with women."

"Novelists, American--19th century--Biography."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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