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| The Spectator advertisement of employment opportunities for "indigent poets and authors." | |
During August of 1820, Hawthorne published a newspaper called The Spectator. The newspaper's title and the advertisement suggest that the young writer Nathaniel Hawthorne was beginning to realize his place in his society. |
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| (courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA) | |
| citation: http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/images/image.php?name=MMD780 |