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Copyright
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on the Text
Introduction
Fanshawe: 1828, 1851
1. Notice in the New England Galaxy: 31 October 1828, xi, 3
2. [Sarah Josepha Hale] from a review in the Ladies’ Magazine: November 1828, i, 526–7
3. Unsigned notice in the Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette: 6 November 1828, i, 358
4. Unsigned notice in the [Boston] Bower of Taste: 8 November 1828, i, 718
5. From an unsigned review in the Boston Weekly Messenger: 13 November 1828, xviii, 1
6. [William Leggett], from a review in the Critic: 22 November 1828, i, 53–5
7. Hawthorne, from a letter to James T. Fields: 12 January 1851
The Token: 1835–7
8. [Park Benjamin], from a review of The Token for 1836, New-England Magazine: October 1835, ix, 294–8
9. [Henry F. Chorley], from a review of The Token for 1836, Athenaeum: 7 November 1835, 830–1
10. [Park Benjamin], from a review of The Token for 1837, American Monthly Magazine: October 1836, n.s., ii, 405–7
11. [Lewis Gaylord Clark], from a review of The Token for 1838, Knickerbocker Magazine: November 1837, x, 447–9
Twice-Told Tales: 1837
12. Unsigned review in the Salem Gazette: 14 March 1837, li, 2
13. From an unsigned review in the Knickerbocker Magazine: April 1837, ix, 422–5
14. [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow], from a review in the North American Review: July 1837, xxxxv, 59–73
15. Notice in the Family Magazine: November 1837, v, 280
16. [Charles Fenno Hoffman], a review in the American Monthly Magazine: March 1838, n.s., v, 281–3
17. A[ndrew] P[reston] P[eabody], from a review in the Christian Examiner: November 1838, xxv, 182–90
The Gentle Boy; A Thrice-Told Tale: 1839
18. Hawthorne, from the Preface: 1839
19. Notice in the New York Review: April 1839, iv, 493
20. Notice in the Literary Gazette: 22 June 1839, 392
Grandfather’s Chair 1841–3
21. Hawthorne, Preface: 1841
22. Notice, in the Athenaeum: 4 June 1842, pp. 501–2
23. [James Russell Lowell], from a review of Historical Tales for Youth Pioneer: January 1843, i, 41–2
24. E. A. Duyckinck: Hawthorne’s early work, from an unsigned essay, ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne’, in Arcturus: May 1841, i, 330–7
Twice-Told Tales: 1842–5
25. [Nathan Hale, Jr.], from a review in the Boston Miscellany: February 1842, i, 92
26. [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow], review in the North American Review: April 1842, lvi, 496–9
27. [Edgar Allan Poe], from a review in Graham’s Magazine: April 1842, xx, 254
28. [Orestes Brownson], from a review in the Boston Quarterly Review: April 1842, v, 251–2
29. [Edgar Allan Poe], a review in Graham’s Magazine: May 1842, xx, 298–300
30. [G. P. R. James], from ‘American Works of Fiction, in the Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review: October 1843, ii, 458–88
31. [Henry F. Chorley], from a review in the Athenaeum: 23 August 1845, pp. 830–1
32. E. A. Duyckinck: Hawthorne as an established writer, from an unsigned essay, ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne’ in the Democratic Review: April 1845, xvi, 376–84
33. Hawthorne among the humorists, from an unsigned essay, ‘American Humor in the Democratic Review: September 1845, xvii, 212–9
Mosses From An Old Manse: 1846–50
34. Hawthorne, from ‘The Old Manse’: 1846
35. Notice in Graham’s Magazine: August 1846, xxix, 107–8
36. [Henry F. Chorley], from a review in the Athenaeum: 8 August 1846, pp. 807–8
37. From an unsigned review, ‘The American Library’, in Blackwood’s Magazine: November 1847, lxii, 587–92
38. [Herman Melville], ‘Hawthorne and His Mosses. By a Virginian Spending His Summer in Vermont’, in the Literary World: 17 and 24 August 1850, vii, 125–7, 145–7
39. Charles Wilkins Webber; Hawthorne and a national literature, from an unsigned essay, ‘Hawthorne’, in the American Whig Review: September 1846, iv, 296–316
40. S[amuel] W. S. D[utton]: Hawthorne and the natural style, from ‘Nathaniel Hawthorn?’ in the New Englander: January 1847, v, 56–69
41. Edgar A. Poe : The attack on Hawthorne’s allegory, from ‘Tale Writing—Nathaniel Hawthorne’, in Godey’s Lady’s Book: November 1847, xxxv, 252–6
The Scarlet Letter: 1850–1
42. Hawthorne, from ‘The Custom-House’: 1850
43. Hawthorne, Preface to the Second Edition: 30 March 1850
44. [E. A. Duyckinck], from a review in the Literary World: 30 March 1850, vi, 323–5
45. [George Ripley], from a review in the New York Tribune Supplement: 1 April 1850, ix, 2
46. [E. P. Whipple], a review in Graham’s Magazine: May 1850, xxxvi, 345–6
47. [Henry F. Chorley], a review in the Athenaeum: 15 June 1850, p. 634
48. [Anne W. Abbott], from a review in the North American Review: July 1850, lxxi, 135–48
49. [George Bailey Loring], from a review in the Massachusetts Quarterly Review: September 1850, iii, 484–500
50. [Orestes Brownson], from a review in Brownson’s Quarterly Review: October 1850, n.s., v, 528–32
51. [Arthur Cleveland Coxe], from ‘The Writings of Hawthorne’, in the Church Review: January 1851, iii. 489–511
True Stories From History and Biography: 1851
52. Notice in Graham’s Magazine: February 1851, xxxviii, 134
53. Notice in the Southern Quarterly Review: April 1851, n.s., iii, 571–2
The House of The Seven Gables: 1851
54. Hawthorne, Preface: 27 January 1851
55. Herman Melville, from a letter to Hawthorne, in The Letters of Herman Melville (ed. Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman [1960]): 16(?) April(?) 1851, pp. 123–5
56. James Russell Lowell, from a letter to Hawthorne, in Hawthorne and His Wife: 24 April 1851 [1884], i, 390–2
57. [E. A. Duyckinck], from a review in the Literary World: 26 April 1851, viii, 334–5
58. Unsigned review in the Christian Examiner: May 1851, 1, 508–9
59. From an unsigned review in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine: May 1851, ii, 855–6
60. [E. P, Whipple], a review in Graham’s Magazine: May 1851, xxxviii, 467–8
61. [Henry F. Chorley], from a review in the Athenaeum: 24 May 1851, pp. 545–7
62. Unsigned review in the Southern Quarterly Review: July 1851, n.s., iv, 265–6
63. Hawthorne, from a letter to Horatio Bridge, in Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne: 22 July 1851 [1893] pp. 126–7
64. Rufus W. Griswold on Hawthorne, from an unsigned essay, ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne’, in the International Magazine: 1 May 1851, iii, 156–60
65. Henry T. Tuckerman: Hawthorne as a psychological novelist, from ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne’, in the Southern Literary Messenger: June 1851, xvii, 344–9
66. A[mory] D[wight] M[ayo]: Hawthorne as a religious novelist, from ‘The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne’, in the Universalist Quarterly: July 1851, viii, 272–93
Twice-Told Tales: 1851
67. Hawthorne, Preface to the 1851 Edition: 11 January 1851
68. From a notice in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine: April 1851, ii, 712
69. [E. P. Whipple], a review in Graham’s Magazine: May 1851, xxxviii, 469
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys: 1851
70. Hawthorne, Preface: 15 July 1851
71. Unsigned review in Graham’s Magazine: January 1852, xl, III
72. [Henry F. Chorley], from a review in the Athenaeum: 17 January 1852, pp. 81–2
The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales: 1851
73. Hawthorne, Preface: 1 November 1851
74. [E. A. Duyckinck], from a review in the Literary World: 10 January 1852, x, 22–4
75. [E. P. Whipple], a review in Graham’s Magazine: April 1852, xl, 443
The Blithedale Romance: 1852
76. Hawthorne, Preface: May 1852
77. From an unsigned review in the Spectator: 3 July 1852, xxv, 637–8
78. [Henry F. Chorley], from a review in the Athenaeum: 10 July 1852, pp. 741–3
79. [Charles Hale], a review in To-Day: 17 July 1852, ii, 42
80. From an unsigned review in the Literary World: 24 July 1852, xi, 52–4
81. Unsigned review in the Christian Examiner: September 1852, lv, 292–4
82. [E. P. Whipple], a review in Graham’s Magazine: September 1852, xli, 333–4
83. Notice in the Southern Quarterly Review: October 1852, n.s., vi, 543
84. From an unsigned essay, ‘Contemporary Literature of America’, in the Westminster Review: October 1852, Iviii, 592–8
85. [Orestes Brownson], from a review in Brownson’s Quarterly Review: October 1852, n.s., vi, 561–4
86. From an unsigned review in the American Whig Review: November 1852, xvi, 417–24
Life of Franklin Pierce: 1852–53
87. From an unsigned essay, ‘Hawthorne’s Life of Pierce—Perspective’, in the Democratic Review: September 1852, xxxi, 276–88
88. [E. A. Duyckinck], from a review in the Literary World: 25 September 1852, xi, 195–6
89. From an unsigned essay, ‘Contemporary Literature of America’, in the Westminster Review: 1 January 1853, n.s., iii, 295
90. Charles Hale: An attack on Hawthorne’s politics and philosophy, from an unsigned essay, ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne’, in To-Day: 18 September 1852, ii, 177–83
Tanglewood Tales: 1853
91. Hawthorne, from ‘The Wayside’: 13 March 1853
92. From an unsigned review in Graham’s Magazine: September 1853, xliii, 333—5
93. From an unsigned review in the Knickerbocker Magazine: October 1853, xlviii, 407–9
94. Richard Henry Stoddard: The biographical interest, from an unsigned essay, ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne’, in the National Magazine: January 1853, ii, 17–24
95. ‘Sir Nathaniel’: Hawthorne and the delineation of the abnormal, from ‘American Authorship’, in the New Monthly Magazine: June 1853, xcviii, 202–12
96. Hawthorne as the favourite of the British, from an unsigned essay, ‘American Novels’, in the North British Review: November 1853, xx, 81–99
Mosses From An Old Manse: 1854
97. Hawthorne, from a letter to James T. Fields, in James T. Fields’ Yesterdays with Authors: 13 April 1854 [1871] pp. 75–6
98. Unsigned review in Graham’s Magazine: November 1854, xlv, 492
99. A British comparison of Poe and Hawthorne, from an unsigned essay, ‘American Literature: Poe; Hawthorne’, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine: January 1855, xxii, 33’41
100. A British objection to Hawthorne and his audience, from an unsigned essay, ‘Modern Novelists—Great and Small’, in Blackwood’s Magazine: May 1855, lxxvii, 562–6
The Marble Faun [Transformation]: 1859–61
101. Hawthorne, Preface: 15 October 1859
102. [Henry F. Chorley], from a review in the Athenaeum: 3 March 1860, pp. 296–7
103. Hawthorne, from the Postscript: March 1860
104. [James Russell Lowell], from a review in the Atlantic Monthly: April 1860, v, 509–10
105. Unsigned review in the Westminster Review: April 1860, lxxiii, 624–7
106. Hawthorne, from a letter to John Lothrop Motley: 1 April 1860
107. From an unsigned review in The Times: 7 April 1860, p. 5
108. From an unsigned essay, ‘The Marble Faun: Completed’, in the Knickerbocker Magazine: July 1860, lvi, 65–73
109. From an unsigned essay, ‘The Author of Adam Bede and Nathaniel Hawthorne’, in the North British Review: August 1860, xxxii, 87–98
110. E. P. Whipple: His final assessment of Hawthorne, from an unsigned essay, ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne’, in the: Atlantic Monthly: May 1860, v, 614–22
111. A British view of Hawthorne and an authentic American literature, from an unsigned essay, ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne’, in the Universal Review: June 1860, iii, 742–71
112. Richard Holt Hutton: Hawthorne and the Calvinist imagination, from an unsigned essay, ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne’, in the National Review: October 1860, xi, 453–81
Our Old Home: 1863–4
113. Hawthorne, from ‘To a Friend’, introductory to Our Old Home: 2 July 1863
114. Unsigned review in the North American Review: October 1863, xcvii, 588–9
115. Unsigned essay, ‘A Handful of Hawthorne’, in Punch: 17 October 1863, lxxix, 339–40
116. [Henry Bright], from a review in the Examiner: 17 October 1863, pp. 662–3
117. From an unsigned essay, ‘Hawthorne on England’, in Blackwood’s Magazine: November 1863, xciv, 610–23
118. Edward Dicey: A British defence of Hawthorne’s politics and philosophy, from ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne’, in Macmillan’s Magazine: July 1864, x, 241–6
119. Richard Holt Hutton: Hawthorne, the ‘ghost of New England’, from an unsigned essay, ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne’ in the Spectator: 18 July, xxxvii, 705–6
120. George William Curtis: Hawthorne, the Salem recluse, from an unsigned review in the North American Review: October 1864, xcix, 539–57
Posthumous Publications: The Fragments (A) Pansie: 1864
121. Unsigned review in the Athenaeum: 10 September 1864, p. 338
(B) Septimius; A Romance: 1872
122. Unsigned review in the British Quarterly Review: October 1872, lvi, 540
123. From an unsigned review in the New Englander: October 1872, xxxi, 785–6
124. From an unsigned review in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine: November 1872, xlv, 784
(C) Fanshawe and The Dolliver Romance: 1876
125. From an unsigned review in Appletons’ Journal: August 1876, n.s., i, 190
126. From an unsigned review in the British Quarterly Review: October 1876, lxiv, 540–5
(D) Dr. Grimshawe’s Secret: 1883
127. From an unsigned review in the Athenaeum: 6 January 1883, pp. 9–11
128. Eugene Benson: Hawthorne and Poe, From ‘Poe and Hawthorne’, in the Galaxy: December 1868, vi, 742–8
Posthumou S Publications: The Note-Books (A)’ Passages From The American Note-Books: 1868–9
129. Unsigned review in the Westminster Review: 1869, xci, 135
130. From an unsigned review in the British Quarterly Review: April 1869, xlix, 574–5
(B) Passages From The English Note-Books: 1870
131. G[eorge] S. Hillard, from a review in the Atlantic Monthly: September 1870, xxvi, 257–72
132. Unsigned review, in the North British Review: October 1870, liii, 149–50
(C) Passages From The French and Italian Note-Books: 1872
133. [Henry James], from a review in The Nation: 14 March 1872, xiv, 172–3
134. Dorville Libby: Hawthorne and the supernatural, from ‘The Supernatural in Hawthorne’, in the Overland Monthly: February, 1869, ii, 138–43
135. Hawthorne, the New England artist, from an unsigned review in the Southern Review: April 1870, vii, 328–54
136. Henry T. Tuckerman: The years of seclusion established, from ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne’, in Lippincott’s Magazine: May 1870, v, 498–507
137. William Brighty Rands: The problem of Hawthorne’s ambivalence, from ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne’, in St. Paul’s Magazine: May 1871, viii, 150–61
138. Leslie Stephen: Hawthorne and the lessons of romance, from an unsigned essay, ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne’, in the Cornhill Magazine: December 1872, xxvi, 717–34
139. · George Parsons Lathrop, The family version of Hawthorne, from A Study of Hawthorne: 1876, pp. 284–99
140. Anthony Trollope: The novelist’s view of the romancer, from ‘The Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne’, in the North American Review: September 1879, cclxxiv, 203–22
141. A reply to Trollope, from an unsigned essay, ‘Polar Opposites in Fiction’, in the Dublin University Magazine: October 1879, xciv, 437–42
142. Henry James: The young writer’s view, from Hawthorne: 1879, pp. 144–5
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