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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Male : Novelist & story writer. Married Sophie Peabody 1842. Lived in Rome & Florence 1857-9 and at Redcar in 1859.
Nationality : American Place of Birth : Salem, Massachusetts

Date of Birth : 1804 Date of Death : 1864 Age : 60

Education : Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
1826-1830
Fanshawe : A Tale
(1828 Marsh & Capen, Boston) - publ anonymously and at his own expense

1831-1840
(Ed) The American Magazine of Useful & Entertaining Knowledge (1836)
Twice Told Tales : Series 1
(1837)
The Token
(1837 Charles Bowen, Boston)

1841-1850
Grandfather's Chair, a History for Youth
(1841 E P Peabody, Boston) - 2 vols
Famous Old People
(Grandfather's Chair) (1841 Peabody, Boston)
Liberty Tree : with the last words of Grandfather's Chair
(1842 Tappan & Dennet, Boston)
Biographical Stories for Children
(1842)
Twice Told Tales : Series 2
(1842 James Munroe, Boston) - 2 vols
(Ed) Journal of an African Cruiser (1845 Wiley & Putnam, NY)
Mosses from an Old Manse
(1846 Wiley & Putnam, NY) - 2 vols
(1854 Ticknor, Reed & Fields 2nd Ed Revised)
The Celestial Railroad
(1847 D Skinner, Lowell)
The Scarlet Letter : A Romance
(1850 Ticknor, Reed & Fields)
Offered in 1999 for £5150
[Filmed in 1926, 1934 & 1995]

1851-1860
The House of the Seven Gables : A Romance
(1851 Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Boston) (1851 Bohn)
[Filmed in 1940]
True Stories from History and Biography
(the whole History of Grandfather's Chair) (1851 Ticknor, etc)
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys
(1851 BTF)
(1852 Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Boston) (1852 Bohn)
The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales
(1852 Ticknor, Reed & Fields) - 2425
The Blithedale Romance
(1852 Ticknor, Reed & Fields, Boston)
Life of Franklin Pierce
(1852 Ticknor, Reed & Fields)
Tanglewood Tales : 2nd Series of the Wonder Book
(1853 Ticknor, Reed & Fields)
A Rill from the Town-Pump, with remarks by Telba
(1857)
Mosses from an Old Manse
(1857 Ticknor & Fields. 2nd Ed) - 2 vols
The Marble Faun, or the Romance of Monte Beni
(1860 Ticknor & Fields)
- 2 vols - in England as "Transformation"
Transformation, or The Romance of Monte Beni
(1860 Tauchnitz)
The Weal-Reaf : A record of the Essex Insitute Fair
(1860 Salem)

1861-1870
Our Old Home : A Series of English Sketches
(1863 Ticknor & Fields) - 3500
Dolliver Romance
(1864)
The Snow Image : A Childish Miracle
(1864 James G Gregory, NY)
- 1st separate edition. Marcus Waterman
Pansie : A Fragment - the Last Literary Effort of Hawthorne
(1864 John Camden Hotten, London)
Passages from the American Note-Books
(1868 Ticknor & Fields - 2 vols) (1868 Smith Elder)
English Note-Books
(Ed by Sophia Hawthorne) (1870)

1871-1880
Septimus Felton, or the Elixir of Life
(1872 Osgood) - 3000
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks
(1871 Strahan) (1872 Osgood, Boston) - 2 vols
Legends of New England
(1877 Osgood)
A Virtuoso's Collection & Other Tales
(1877 Osgood)
Legends of the Province House
(1877 Osgood) - 1500
Works
(1879) - 24 vols

1881-1900
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret : A Romance
(1883 Osgood) (1883 Riverside Press, Cambridge
- 250 large paper)
Sketches and Studies
(1883)
The Works
(1883 Riverside Edition) - 12 vols. 250 large paper
The Marble Faun
(1890 Houghton Mifflin) - 1st US illus Ed. 2 vols
A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls
(1892 Osgood, McIlvaine) - Walter Crane
A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls
(1893 Riverside Press, Cambridge) - 250. Walter Crane
(1893 London) - Walter Crane
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales
(1894 Walter Scott, London) - 12 vols
Works : Standard Library Edition
(c1890s Houghton Mifflin) - 15 vols
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys and Tanglewood Tales
(1898 Houghton Mifflin) - Walter Crane & George Wharton Edwards
The Complete Writings
(1900 Houghton Mifflin) - 22 vols + 500 signed by
author's daughter & publishers

1901-1925
A Wonder Book & Tanglewood Tales
(1910 Dent) - H Granville Fell
A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales
(1910 Duffield, NY) (1914 Duckworth) - Maxfield Parrish
A Wonder Book
(1913 Rand McNally, NY) - Milo Winter
The Gorgon's Head : Told to the Children
(1916 London) - Patten Wilson
The Seven Vagabonds
(1916 Houghton Mifflin)
Tanglewood Tales
(1918 Hodder & Stoughton) - 500 signed by Edmund Dulac
Signed edition offered in 1991 for £315 & £380 in 1999
The Scarlet Letter
(1920 Methuen) - Hugh Thomson
Tanglewood Tales
(1920 Jack) - Olive Allen
Tanglewood Tales
(1921 Penn Publ Co, Phila) - Virginia Francis Sterrett
A Wonder Book
(1922 Hodder & Stoughton) - 600 signed by Arthur Rackham
Signed edition offered in 1996 for £850
Wonder Book & Tanglewood Tales
(1925 Harrap) - Gustaf Tenggren & Stephen Reid

After 1926
The Scarlet Letter
(1928 Random House) - Valenti Angelo
A Wonder Book
(1930 Junior Library, Doubleday Doran, Garden City) - Arthur Rackham
The Marble Faun or the Romance of Monte Beni
(1931 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 2 vols. 1500 signed by Carl Strauss
The American Notebooks : Based upon Original MSS in the Pierpont Morgan Library
(1932 Yale UP)
The House of the Seven Gables
(1935 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Valenti Angelo
A Wonder Book & Tanglewood Tales
(1937 Dent) - Merlyn Mann
Tanglewood Tales
(1938 Hodder & Stoughton) - Edmund Dulac
The Scarlet Letter
(1941 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - Henry Varnum Poor
The Tale of King Midas and the Golden Touch
(1952 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 2000 signed by Fritz Eichenberg
The Complete Greek Stories
(1963 Gollancz) - Harold Jones
Twice-Told Tales
(1966 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Valenti Angelo
The Complete Greek Stories
(1971 Gollancz) - Harold Jones
The Scarlet Letter
(1984 Pennyroyal Editions, West Hartfield) - Barry Moser

READING
Horatio Bridge : Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1893 Harper)
George Woodberry : Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1902 Houghton Mifflin) - 600
Julian Hawthorne : Hawthorne and His Circle
(1903)
Jacob Chamberlain : First Editions of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1904 Grolier Club NY)
Caroline Ticknor : Hawthorne and His Publisher
(1913 Houghton Mifflin)
Randall Stewart : Nathaniel Hawthorne - A Biography
(1948 New Haven)
Arlin Turner : Mark Twain and George W Cable - The Record of a Literary Friendship
(1960)
Nathaniel Hawthorne : An Introduction and Interpretation
(1961)
Nina Baym : The Shape of Hawthorne's Career
(1976 Ithaca, NY)
C E Frazer Clark Jnr : Nathaniel Hawthorne - A Descriptive Bibliography
(1978 Pittsburgh UP)
Arlin Turner : Nathaniel Hawthorne - A Biography
(1980 OUP)

Related Writers

Walter Crane
Edmund Dulac
Arthur Rackham
Mark Twain


See also

Children's Illustrated Classics
Everyman Series 1-500
Everyman Series 501-1000
In Print 1994 Penguin Classics
Willy Pogany
Mark Albert Van Doren