Critical Commentary Related to The Maternal Ancestors of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Robert Manning, Hawthorne's maternal uncle (courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum)

Excerpt from Margaret B. Moore's book, The Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne, in which she says that "Hawthorne's mother…has been badly misrepresented through the years" (69). (courtesy of the University of Missouri Press) Excerpt from Edwin Haviland Miller's book, Salem Is My Dwelling Place, in which he asserts that Hawthorne's mother's "isolation from the world was extreme" (32) and in which he discusses how this affected Hawthorne. (courtesy of University of Iowa Press)