(This collection of literature attempts to compile many of...)
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
(The basis of this work is Hawthorne's letters, Mrs. Hawth...)
The basis of this work is Hawthorne's letters, Mrs. Hawthorne's letters, and letters from intimate friends and relatives to either. The beautiful family life they describe, with scarcely a flaw in it from beginning to end, is a bright contrast to some other interiors of the homes of great writers offered us of late years. For the first time, too, we learn through them of Mrs. Hawthorne's lovely character, and all the depths and contrasts of her husband s many-sided nature. As the letters were written only for the eyes of intimate friends, they are often quite frank in the expression of opinion regarding literary contemporaries.
A Tragic Mystery: From the Diary of Inspector Byrnes
(The wine shop or restaurant was built of wood and was onl...)
The wine shop or restaurant was built of wood and was only two stories In height. It was bounded on one side by a large edifice of brick, and on the other by an old lumber-yard, crowded with piles of timber and heaps of junk and rubbish, and separated from the street by a high fence. An old-fashioned stoop decorated the front of the building, and be kinda ramshackle balcony jutted over the yard. The array of bottles and framed signs in the Shop window was enriched with some garlands of dusty and faded greenery, the relics of Christmas ornamentation for the period at which this story begins was' the week between Christmas and New Years.
(Last summer my affairs by which I mean a judicious mixtur...)
Last summer my affairs by which I mean a judicious mixture of duty and inclination made it desirable that I should take a trip from a certain seaport town in Cumberland, where I then was, to the free city of Hamburg on the Baltic. I first went to Liverpool, which I had not visited since my childhood. I had no particular business there, but then I was not in a hurry, and I wished to see whether the old place had changed much since my time.
(The professor crossed one long, lean leg over the other, ...)
The professor crossed one long, lean leg over the other, and punched down the ashes in his pipe-bowl with the square tip of his middle finger. The thermometer on the shady veranda marked eighty-seven degrees of heat, and nature wooed the soul to languor and revery, but nothing could abate the energy of this bony sage.
(In 1877, when Hawthorne was living in Twickenham, near Lo...)
In 1877, when Hawthorne was living in Twickenham, near London, his sister Una happened to be describing a queer Character she had met that day: she had a gift for making swift and vivid portraits in words. He was a little rumpty-budget of a man, she said, concluding her description. She may have meant to say, Rumpelstiltskin, the name of a dwarf immortalized in the Grimm fairy-tales, with which we had been familiar in our childhood. But her variation struck Hawthorne, and he wrote a story about him.
Julian Hawthorne was an American writer and journalist. He wrote poems, novels, short stories, mystery/detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies, and histories. As a journalist, he reported on the Indian Famine for Cosmopolitan magazine and the Spanish-American War for the New York Journal.
Background
Julian Hawthorne was born on June 22, 1846, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, a novelist, and Sophia Hawthorne, an artist. His parents had been choosing a name for eight months. Possible names included George, Arthur, Edward, Horace, Robert, and Lemuel. His father called him for some time as "Bundlebreech" or "Black Prince", due to his dark curls and red cheeks. The family moved to Liverpool, England, where his father was an American consul when Julian was seven. As a boy, Julian was well-behaved and good-natured. He was raised in a loving household.
Education
Julian Hawthorne began his formal education at the Concord Middle School in Massachusetts. In 1863 Julian Hawthorne enrolled in the Lowell Scientific School at Harvard University but didn't graduate. After that, he returned to Europe to do postgraduate work at a polytechnic school in Dresden, Germany. He was tutored privately by James Russell Lowell.
In 1870 Julian Hawthorne returned to the United States and worked as a hydrographic engineer for the city of New York. Dissatisfied with being a hydrographic engineer, he began working as a newspaper correspondent and literary critic before embarking on a prolific writing career. He left the United States again, this time to take a position as a staff writer at The Spectator magazine in London, where he spent seven years. While in Europe he wrote the novels Bressant (1873), Idolatry (1874), Garth (1874), Archibald Malmaison (1879), and Sebastian Strome (1880).
In 1883 he returned to the United States and edited his father's unfinished Dr. Grimshawe's Secret. He dedicated the book to his sister Rose Hawthorne and her husband George Parsons Lathrop. The next year he published a book about his father and mother Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife. This biography was recognized by critics as a well-written and perceptive work, valuable for the insight it provides into the eminent author’s personality and for its candid revelations concerning the events of his life.
By 1900 he had decided to give up writing fiction and concentrated on history, short stories, and syndicated columns and articles. After 1900, Hawthorne worked exclusively as a journalist, contributing to a number of major periodicals.
The most humiliating event in Hawthorne’s life, however, occurred in 1913 when he was sentenced to serve one year at the Atlanta State Penitentiary for his part in a mail fraud scheme. Still proclaiming his innocence, he nevertheless accepted his lot and took an active part in prison life, becoming editor of the penitentiary’s newspaper. Drawing upon this experience, Hawthorne wrote The Subterranean Brotherhood in 1914 as a denunciation of the entire penal system, proposing that the practice of imprisonment. After his release from prison, Hawthorne traveled for several years, settling finally in California, where he wrote for the Pasadena Star News until his death in 1934.
Throughout his career, he was challenged by critics to duplicate the superior literary achievements of his father, and his failure to do so resulted in harsh appraisals of his fiction.
Achievements
His book A Fool of Nature written under the pseudonym Judith Hollinshed won a $10,000 prize offered by the New York Herald.
Quotations:
"It was almost appalling to be the subject of such limitless devotion and affection" - Julian Hawthorne about childhood and family
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
"A small troglodyte made his appearance here at ten minutes to six o'clock, this morning, who claims to be your nephew and the heir of all our wealth and honors. He has dark hair and is no great beauty at present, but is said to be a particularly fine little urchin by everybody who has seen him" - Julian Hawthorne's father wrote to his sister.
Interests
walking, running, rowing, gymnastics, tennis
Connections
Julian Hawthorne was married to Mary Albertina Amelung on November 15, 1870. They had one child.
Father:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. He was an American novelist and short-story writer who was a master of the allegorical and symbolic tale. One of the greatest fiction writers in American literature, he is best known for The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851). He died on May 19, 1864, in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
Mother:
Sophia Hawthorne
Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne was born on September 21, 1809, in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. She was an American painter and illustrator. She also published her journals and various articles. She died on February 26, 1871, in London, England, United Kingdom.
Sister:
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop was born on May 20, 1851, in Lenox, Massachusetts, United States. She was an American writer. As Mother Mary Alphonsa in the 1900s, she was a Roman Catholic religious sister, social worker, and foundress of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne. She died on July 9, 1926, in New York City, New York, United States.
Sister:
Una Hawthorne
Una Hawthorne was born on March 3, 1844, in Concord, Massachusetts, United States. She died on September 10, 1877, in London, England.
