TAILIEUCHUNG - Septimius Felton by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

In 1852, he wrote the campaign biography of his old friend Franklin Pierce. With Pierce's election as president, Hawthorne was rewarded in 1853 with the position of United States consul in Liverpool. In 1857, his appointment ended and the Hawthorne family toured France and Italy. | feedboo is Septimius Felton Hawthorne Nathaniel Published 1872 Categorie s Fiction Source http 1 About Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4 1804 in Salem Massachusetts where his birthplace is now a museum. William Hathorne who emigrated from England in 1630 was the first of Hawthorne s ancestors to arrive in the colonies. After arriving William persecuted Quakers. William s son John Hathorne was one of the judges who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials. One theory is that having learned about this the author added the w to his surname in his early twenties shortly after graduating from college. Hawthorne s father Nathaniel Hathorne Sr. was a sea captain who died in 1808 of yellow fever when Hawthorne was only four years old in Raymond Maine. Hawthorne attended Bow-doin College at the expense of an uncle from 1821 to 1824 befriending classmates Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future president Franklin Pierce. While there he joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Until the publication of his Twice-Told Tales in 1837 Hawthorne wrote in the comparative obscurity of what he called his owl s nest in the family home. As he looked back on this period of his life he wrote I have not lived but only dreamed about living. And yet it was this period of brooding and writing that had formed as Malcolm Cowley was to describe it the central fact in Hawthorne s career his term of apprenticeship that would eventually result in the richly meditated fiction. Hawthorne was hired in 1839 as a weigher and gauger at the Boston Custom House. He had become engaged in the previous year to the illustrator and transcendentalist Sophia Peabody. Seeking a possible home for himself and Sophia he joined the transcendentalist utopian community at Brook Farm in 1841 later that year however he left when he became dissatisfied with farming and the experiment. His Brook Farm adventure would prove an inspiration for his novel The Blithedale Romance. He married Sophia in 1842 they

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