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  Nathaniel Hawthorne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hawthorne's father was a sea captain and descendant of John Hathorne, one of the judges who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials.
Hawthorne is best-known today for his many short stories (he called them "tales") and his four major romances of 1850–1860: The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852), and The Marble Faun (1860).
The Hawthorne in Salem Website was funded in May of 2000 by a three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a collaborative effort of North Shore Community College in Danvers, Massachusetts, and three Salem, Massachusetts museums with important Hawthorne collections.
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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Later, Hawthorne lived at the experimental community Brook Farm for about six months, but he did not share the optimism and idealism of the transcendentalist participants (see transcendentalism), and he did not feel himself suited to communal life.
Hawthorne’s stay in England is reflected in the travel sketches of Our Old Home (1863), and a visit to Italy resulted in the novel The Marble Faun (1860).
Aside from his importance as a novelist, Hawthorne is justly celebrated as a short-story writer.
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 Hawthorne, Nevada - Description & History, from The Complete Nevada Traveler by David W. Toll
Hawthorne's tourists are mostly the outdoorsmen who camp, hike, hunt and rockhound in the nearby mountains and fish for bass and cutthroat trout in Walker Lake at the foot of mighty Mt. Grant.
Hawthorne is on the main Las Vegas-Reno highway and serves as Nevada's gateway to Yosemite and the eastern Sierra via the Pole Line Road (Nevada 359) connecting with US 395 and the Tioga Pass.
Hawthorne's growth was hardly meteoric; the 1890 census taker counted 337 residents in town.
www.nevadaweb.com /cnt/pio/hawth   (1289 words)

  
 NFL.com - Prospect Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hawthorne totaled 68 tackles (30 solo) with a pair of sacks, seven stops behind the line of scrimmage and 12 quarterback pressures as a sophomore.
Hawthorne shows excellent field instincts, as he is quick to locate the ball and pursue the play in the short area.
Hawthorne spends too much time on the ground when attempting to pass rush and isn't consistent in using his hands to generate effective rip, swim or club moves, even though he has the strength.
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 Hawthorne, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hawthorne is a city located in southwestern Los Angeles County, California.
Hawthorne is known to rock and roll fans as the home of Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys.
The Wilson brothers' boyhood home was demolished in the late 1980s during the construction of the Century Freeway, although it was honored by the dedication of a California State Historic Landmark (California Landmark 1041) in May 2005.
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 Nathaniel Hawthorne - MSN Encarta
Hawthorne's exploration of these themes was related to the sense of guilt he felt about the roles of his ancestors in the 17th-century persecution of Quakers (see Friends, Society of) and in the 1692 witchcraft trials of Salem, Massachusetts.
Hawthorne characterized most of his books as romances, a category of literature not as strictly bound to realistic detail as novels.
Hawthorne's emphasis on allegory and symbolism often makes his characters seem shadowy and unreal, but his best characters reveal the emotional and intellectual ambivalence he felt to be inseparable from the Puritan heritage of America.
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 William Heath, Essay (1) - Issue Three - The Cortland Review
Hawthorne, like Fanshawe, was acutely aware of his singularity: he had a strikingly beautiful face, combining such delicacy and strength that a gypsy woman once exclaimed, "Are you a man or an angel?" (Mellow 27).
Young's thesis is that Hawthorne came upon this case at the same time he shared a passionate attachment with his sister, Elizabeth (Ebe), and that this conjunction filled him with revulsion and the fear that he had been cursed to repeat the sins of the past.
Hawthorne thought that such fantasies served to illuminate universal truths, but precisely because they did not have to pass the test of realism, they frequently were projections of his private anxieties.
www.cortlandreview.com /issuethree/heath3.htm   (2752 words)

  
 Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne's other brief fiction of this year, "The Hollow of the Three Hills", is a grim but powerful tale of witchcraft.
Hawthorne next developed a plan to publish a set of short stories, linked by a common background of a wandering storyteller, who tells the tales scattered through the book, as well as telling the story of his life and travels in between.
Hawthorne's philosophical fantasies seem to me to be the nearest ancestor to Borges'.
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 Nathaniel Hawthorne
His ancestors were prominent in the affairs of the colony: John Hawthorne was one of the judges who tried the witches in 1620; and another John Hawthorne was a member of the dignified school committee of Salem in 1796.
Hawthorne's father, a ship captain, died in a foreign land when his son was only four years old; his mother lived for forty years after the death of her husband the life of a recluse in her own house.
Hawthorne did not write on the common subjects and facts of his day, but chose to have his readers go with him, away from prosaic life, out into a world of mysteries where we may revel in all kinds of imaginary sports.
www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.24   (846 words)

  
 Hawthorne, Florida
In 1880 the town was named "Hawthorn" in honor of James M. Hawthorn, a two fisted Indian fighter who encouraged the growth of the town by giving the railroad land to run its line west of Johnson Lake.
Hawthorn continued to grow and prosper due to the fact it was not solely dependent upon the citrus culture like so many of the other towns in Florida at the turn of the century.
The city of Hawthorne and the Hawthorne Area Chamber of Commerce are planning for the future.
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 PAL: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
Hawthorne rounds off the puritan cycle in American writing - belief in the existence of an active evil (the devil) and in a sense of determinism (the concept of predestination).
Hawthorne struggled with the problem of relevance of the artist to the world and the meaning of art to America.
Melville and Hawthorne In The Berkshires: A Symposium.
www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap3/hawthorne.html   (3825 words)

  
 PEM | Nathaniel Hawthorne Bicentennial Exhibition
Hawthorne is among the leading figures of nineteenth century American literature, famous for such works as THE SCARLET LETTER (1850) and THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES (1851).
Hawthorne’s family heritage included Salem sea captains and Puritan officials, including Judge John Hathorn, one of the presiding judges of the infamous Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, while visiting his friend Franklin Pierce in Plymouth, N.H. The Phillips Library is a major hub of Hawthorne scholarship.
www.pem.org /library/hawthorne   (318 words)

  
 Nathaniel Hawthorne: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hawthorne's father was a sea captain and descendant of John Hathorne John Hathorne quick summary:
The scarlet letter, published in 1850, is a classic american novel written by nathaniel hawthorne and is generally considered to be his masterpiece....
The house of the seven gables is a novel authored by nathaniel hawthorne....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/na/nathaniel_hawthorne.htm   (2475 words)

  
 The Classic Text: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne later formally withdrew most of this early work, discounting it as the work of inexperienced youth.
Hawthorne's fiancee Sophia Peabody drew him into "the newness," and in 1841 Hawthorne invested $1500 in the Brook Farm Utopian Community, leaving disillusioned within a year.
In 1850, adultery was an extremely risque subject, but because Hawthorne had the support of the New England literary establishment, it passed easily into the realm of appropriate reading.
www.uwm.edu /Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg143.htm   (455 words)

  
 Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"
Hawthorne shows that the consequence for the mistrust and self-doubt that is inherent in Puritan education and doctrine does not create faith and peace.
When he was four, Hawthorne's father died, and from that point on he was surrounded mostly by females: two sisters, a maiden aunt, and a retiring mother who was not close to her children.
Hawthorne often called the Puritan life of his ancestors “stern.” He was aware of the constant tension and battle between the flesh and the spirit in the lives of the 17th Century Puritans.
itech.fgcu.edu /faculty/wohlpart/alra/Hawthorne.htm   (10803 words)

  
 Nathaniel Hawthorne - Free Online Library
Hawthorne moved to Berkshires in the spring of 1850, where he soon produced his second novel, The House of the Seven Gables.
Hawthorne's third child, Rose, was born in 1851.
Then, Hawthorne was appointed Consul to Liverpool, serving from 1853 to 1857.
hawthorne.thefreelibrary.com   (448 words)

  
 HSD Home
Hawthorne School District consists of eight elementary schools, three middle schools and one charter high school.
Hawthorne School District is dedicated to educational excellence and the continuous academic growth of all students.
Hawthorne School District provides a safe learning environment with high expectations that promotes excellence and success for all students.
www.hawthorne.k12.ca.us   (89 words)

  
 THE NEUROSIS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to School ...
Hawthorne's writing is very closely related to his conflicts with religion during his life.
Hawthorne uses his characters as symbolic images to represent his feeling and thoughts about the religious culture at work during the late 1800's.
Hawthorne's characters represent the struggle of his id's sexual desires, the superego's moral and ethical presence, and the ego's failed balance between the two.
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 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Home Page from Eldritch Press
The bicentennial (200th) anniversary of Nathaniel Hawthorne's birth was held July 4, 2004, in Concord and Salem, Mass.
Hawthorne College in Antrim, N. H., existed from 1962 to 1988, but lives on in the memory of its alumni and former teachers.
Hawthorne's "lost notebook" was found on Hawthorn Avenue in Boulder, Colorado.
www.eldritchpress.org /nh/hawthorne.html   (1740 words)

  
 History of Hawthorne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hawthorne was founded by Benjamin I. Harding and Harry Dana Lombard, who in 1905 purchased acreage from the land company, thus creating the Hawthorne Improvement Company whose purpose was to build an 80-acre town site on the waving barley fields.
Hawthorne was advertised as the town between the city and the sea.
With the growth of the aviation industry and the subsequent aerospace industry, Hawthorne became known as the Cradle of Aviation and enjoyed a boom for many years in both jobs and real estate.
www.cityofhawthorne.com /ctyinfo_history.htm   (767 words)

  
 The Hawthorne effect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Note that "Hawthorne" is not the name of a researcher, but of the factory where the effect was first observed and described: the Hawthorne works of the Western Electric Company in Chicago.
Aspects of the Hawthorne studies suggest that it was not that the researchers expected a better result in every case, but that being studied caused improved performance.
Hawthorne: Parson's argument, primarily about feedback provision, is that learning (improving a skill) requires plenty of feedback on your performance.
www.psy.gla.ac.uk /~steve/hawth.html   (7899 words)

  
 Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection at Bartleby.com
Much to the author’s surprise … he finds that his sketch of official life … has created an unprecedented excitement in the respectable community immediately around him.
Hawthorne’s classic tragedy of love and morals in Puritan New England.
Though set in Puritan community centuries ago, the moral dilemmas of personal responsibility, and consuming emotions of guilt, anger, loyalty and revenge are timeless.
www.bartleby.com /people/HawthornN.html   (162 words)

  
 Hawthorne Elementary School - MMSD
Hawthorne School is a diverse, inclusive community of learners committed to fostering independence and mutual respect, ensuring that all students...
Recently 92.3% of Hawthorne's fifth graders scored in the average or superior range on the school district's writing assessment, exceeding the district average.
Hawthorne maintains a close collaboration with the UW-Madison School of Education, one of the top-ranked education schools in the country.
www.madison.k12.wi.us /012.htm   (1069 words)

  
 Hawthorne Bridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Named for Hawthorne Blvd, which was named for Dr. J.C. Hawthorne, who moved to Oregon in 1859 and helped found the Oregon Hospital for the Insane (the precursor to today's Oregon State Hospital), located near what is now SE Hawthorne Blvd and Grand Avenue.
The Hawthorne was the first bridge to have the wooden deck replaced with a steel deck, in 1945.
With its accessable approaches and wide sidewalks, the Hawthorne is typically regarded as one of the most pedestrian and bicycle-friendly bridges.
spot.pcc.edu /~dkirby/student_sites/samuelklein52/final/bridges/hawthorne.html   (229 words)

  
 American Writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne
A growing family and mounting debts compelled the family's return in 1845 to Salem, where Hawthorne was appointed surveyor of the Custom House.
Three years later he lost his job, but in a few months of concentrated effort he produced his masterpiece, The Scarlet Letter (1850), which made him famous and was eventually recognized as one of the greatest American novels.
Hawthorne's dark, brooding, richly symbolic works, reflecting his Puritan heritage and contrasting sharply with the optimism of his Transcendentalist neighbors, achieve a depth and power that make them one of the greatest legacies in American literature.
www.americanwriters.org /writers/hawthorne.asp   (459 words)

  
 Hawthorne Inn - Restaurant ( steak and seafood ) Receptions & Hotel, Berlin, CT
The Hawthorne Inn Restaurant and Lodge located only 20 minutes south of Hartford in Berlin, Connecticut, is more than just a community icon, as it is well known statewide and throughout New England.
Given the hotel’s location between Hartford and New Haven, the Hawthorne Inn caters to many students and their families visiting nearby universities including Central Connecticut State University, Wesleyan University, Quinnipiac University and University of Hartford.
In the greater Hartford area, Hawthorne Inn is also the perfect choice to accommodate an array of social gatherings from the intimate to the lavish: just right for family reunions, holiday parties, and weddings.
www.hawthorne-inn.com   (384 words)

  
 BBC News | UK | Sir Nigel Hawthorne dies
Nigel Hawthorne was in his fifties by the time he enjoyed television success, and this notoriously insecure actor admitted acting life had been "a struggle for dignity and justification."
In 1977, writers Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn saw Hawthorne on stage and gave him the role of Sir Humphrey Appleby in their new political TV sitcom Yes, Minister, playing opposite Paul Eddington and Derek Foulds.
Although the role of bereaved academic CS Lewis moved audiences to tears and earned Hawthorne a 1991 Tony award, he was overlooked for the film role in favour of the more celebrated Anthony Hopkins.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/872527.stm   (960 words)

  
 Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne Bicentennial Exhibition at the Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex museum includes an interactive feature on Hawthorne and his sister's handwritten 1820 newspaper, The Spectator.
Portrait of Hawthorne by Charles Osgood (1840) courtesy of the Peabody-EssexMuseum, Salem, MA
Daguerreotype of Hawthorne circa 1850-55 courtesy of the Library of Congress.
www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/hawthor.htm   (327 words)

  
 Fiction: Nathaniel Hawthorne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A superior general introduction to Hawthorne and his role in the romantic movement in American literary history, this site also gives you biographical information, a critical bibliography, and a useful list of themes recurrent in Hawthorne's fiction.
Aware of his family's role in colonial America, Hawthorne returned to Salem after graduating from Bowdoin College (where future president Franklin Pierce was a friend and classmate), determined to be a writer.
Although he was friendly with Emerson and his circle of optimistic transcendentalists (some of whom established the utopian socialist community at Brook Farm), Hawthorne's vision of the human condition was considerably darker.
www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/hawthorne.htm   (326 words)

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