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Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Charles Osgood, 1840
(courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum)
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Hawthorne Online Course
North Shore Community College is offering a summer online course on Hawthorne's short stories from May 18 through June 25. The course, entitled Hawthorne in Cultural Context: Stories, Art and Artifact, uses a text of Hawthorne's tales and sketches as well as the resources of the Hawthorne in Salem Website and may be taken for three humanities credits or audited.
You may enroll in the course by going to: www.northshore.edu.
In the boxes under Find Courses, select summer 2009 and Interdisciplinary
Studies (under credit courses), then scroll down to the Hawthorne course.
You may contact Terri Whitney, twhitney@northshore.edu,
with any questions.
Images from Bowdoin College
The Bowdoin College Library has kindly allowed us to post images of some of the items from their Nathaniel Hawthorne collection on our Website which they exhibited in July 2008 at the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society meeting at Bowdoin. These images include a variety of documents relating to Hawthorne’s student days at Bowdoin as well as the first page of Fanshawe and the ivory letter opener which Hawthorne used when he served as surveyor at the Salem Customs House.
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by or about Hawthorne and His Contemporaries as well other items related
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In association with Amazon, the Hawthorne in Salem Website is now offering
our visitors a chance to purchase books on or about Hawthorne and his
contemporaries by clicking on links from our site.In addition, we have
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Featured Books:
- The
Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Cambridge Introductions to Literature) by Leland S. Person, Cambridge
UP, 2007.
- Hawthorne:
A Life
by Brenda Wineapple, Knopf, 2003.
- Hawthorne
in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from
Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates
by Ronald A Bosco (Editor), Jillmarie Murphy (Editor), University of
Iowa Press, June 2007.
- Reinventing
the Peabody Sisters,
co-edited by Monika Elbert, Julie E. Hall, and Katharine Rodier, University
of Iowa Press, 2006.
- Sophia
Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Vol. 1, 1809-1847
by Patricia Dunlavy Valenti, University of Missouri Press, May 2004.
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The Threads of the Scarlet Letter: A Study of Hawthorne's Transformative
Art
by Richard Kopley, University of Delaware Press, 2003.
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