Critical Commentary Related to Nathaniel Hawthorne's Adult Life
W. H. Getchell photograph of Nathaniel Hawthorne done at the firm of Silsbee, Case, and Getchell, 299 1/2 Washington St., Boston, 19 December, 1861(courtesy of Northern Illinois UP)
On Salem in transition: the changed city
to which Hawthorne returned after his graduation from Bowdoin in 1825,
from "Salem After College" in The Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne
by Margaret B. Moore, pp. 123-125 (courtesy University
of Missouri Press)
On Hawthorne's life in Concord in the
first winter after his marriage to Sophia Peabody on July 9, 1842 and
the following summer on the first anniversary of their marriage from
Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times by James R. Mellow pp. 217 and
229 (courtesy of the author and Johns
Hopkins University Press)
On the return of the Hawthornes to Concord
in 1852 and their purchase of The Wayside from "Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne"
in Student Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne by Melissa McFarland
Pennell, p. 7 (courtesy of Greenwood
Press)
On Hawthorne's life in Europe from July
16,1853-June 16, 1860, from "Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne" in Student
Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne by Melissa McFarland Pennell, pp.
7-8 (courtesy of Greenwood Press)
On the Hawthorne family's return to Concord
in 1860 and Hawthorne's death in Plymouth, New Hampshire on May
19, 1864 from "Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne" in Student Companion
to Nathaniel Hawthorne by Melissa McFarland Pennell, p. 8 (courtesy
of Greenwood Press)
