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Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne: A Life in Letters
Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne
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Description for Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne: A Life in Letters
Hardcover. Retrieved from 7 libraries, this corpus of letters was preserved by the Manning family, chiefly for their value as records of Nathaniel's life and work. This book tells of Elizabeth's early life; the trauma caused for sister and brother by the death of their father and the tensions experienced when they moved in with their mother's family. Editor(s): Rocher, Cecile Anne De. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
Retrieved from seven different libraries, this corpus of letters was preserved by the Manning family, chiefly for their value as records of Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and work; but they ironically also illuminate the life and mind of a fascinating correspondent and citizen of New England with incisive views and commentaries on her contemporaries, her role as a woman writer, Boston and Salem literary culture, and family life in mid-19th-century America. This book illuminates Elizabeth's early life; the trauma caused for sister and brother by the death of their father; her and her brother's education; and the tensions the two children ... Read more
Retrieved from seven different libraries, this corpus of letters was preserved by the Manning family, chiefly for their value as records of Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and work; but they ironically also illuminate the life and mind of a fascinating correspondent and citizen of New England with incisive views and commentaries on her contemporaries, her role as a woman writer, Boston and Salem literary culture, and family life in mid-19th-century America. This book illuminates Elizabeth's early life; the trauma caused for sister and brother by the death of their father; her and her brother's education; and the tensions the two children ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817314989
SKU
V9780817314989
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About Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne
Cecile Anne de Rocher is Assistant Professor of English at Dalton State College in Georgia and a 2004 Governor's Teaching Fellow.
Reviews for Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne: A Life in Letters
The portrait of Elizabeth that emerges is an unusual picture of a single and independent (sometimes irreverent) middle-class woman whose interests revolve around literature and politics. Her everyday reporting of uneventful incidents is just as enlightening as her commentary on the Civil War or political unrest in Germany. In fact, she seems to invigorate the mundane or quotidian with the ... Read more