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In truth, we do not know if Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne were authentically romantically involved. We only have Melville’s letters to Hawthorne, and Adi Teodoru has smartly woven them ...
I can't say that a romantic story about Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville was on my bingo card for the summer! MELVILLE & HAWTHORNE is going to run at the MATCH, starting on August 1st until ...
No one, that is, except for Nathaniel Hawthorne, his intimate confidant and sometimes editor. Should he tarry too late at Arrowhead to return to Lenox, Hawthorne stayed in an adjacent guest room. They ...
The Divine Magnet: Herman Melville's Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne Edited by Mark Niemeyer. Orison (Ingram, dist.), $18 trade paper (106p) ISBN 978-0-9906917-5-4 ...
“My sister Augusta begs me to send her sincerest regards both to you and Mr. Hawthorne,” Melville wrote to Sophia Hawthorne, Nathaniel’s wife. Herman Melville was born in New York in 1819 ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne resided in Stockbridge (no, not Lenox) for just 15 months from August 1850 to November 1851, but he left his mark. He named everything that he saw from his writing room window: ...
Other Melville friends and enthusiasts, including Nathaniel Hawthorne (Melville’s Western Massachusetts neighbor), Elizabeth Hardwick, and, for a brief moment, Martin Scorsese and Quentin ...
Although Melville's few surviving letters make no mention of this, his neighbor and fellow novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne, once wrote that Melville spent his days "shaping out the gigantic ...
Each year, the Berkshire County Historical Society marks two significant literary events that took place in early August — Herman Melville was born on Aug. 1, 1819, and he made his hike up Great ...