MelissaHawthorne

 I am married to a Sophia Peabody, who was frequently bed ridden for much of her life and we have conceived three wonderful children. Una, Julian, and Rose are the names of our children, who were born in that order. Before our marriage my wife and I moved to a transcendentalist Utopian community at Brook Farm in 1841, because I needed to save up money to marry my Sophia. We were married on July 9, 1842 and moved to Concord, Massachusetts. My struggles lay within the depths of such strict Puritan beliefs, because I believe in a loving God expressed in nature. || ||
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne [[image:scarlet_letter.jpg width="30" height="26" caption="scarlet_letter.jpg"]]
 *   Some of my literary aquaintances inlcude transccendentalist authors such as Henry Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and even Herman Melville. Melville dedicated his masterpiece Moby Dick in my honor. My works reflect transcendental aspects and draw upon early American culture.

The following links will be credited with researching the information on this page: 
 * http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/
 * http://www.bookrags.com/biography/nathaniel-hawthorne-dtx/
 * http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/hawthor.htm

|| __A List of My Literary Works:__  ||
 * The Scarlet Letter (1850)
 * The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
 * The Blithedale Romance (1852)
 * The Marble Faun (1860)
 * The Dolliver Romance (1863)
 * Septimius Felton; or, the Elixir of Life (1872)
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Doctor Grimshawe's Secret (1882)
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Twice-Told Tales (1837)
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales (1852)
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1852)
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Tanglewood Tales (1853)
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces (1876)
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains (1889)
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">The Celestial Railroad and Other Short Stories (1858) <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Fanshawe (published anonymously, 1828)[79]
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">The Celestial Railroad and Other Short Stories (1858) <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;">Fanshawe (published anonymously, 1828)[79]