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10 pages in length. The writer discusses Nathaniel Hawthorne's biography, as well as addresses various components of "The Scarlet Letter." Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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when he was only four years old, leaving his mother to tend to him and his two sisters on her own. At nine years old, an injury forced him
to become home schooled, where he discovered his love for Shakespeare, Spenser, and Bunyan. Sebago Lake, Maine, became the Hawthorne familys new residence until 1819, when Hawthornes Uncle Robert
sent him back for college entrance preparation in Salem. Bowdin College became his choice of academic institute at the age of seventeen, where he would come to know "two
future famous Americans" (Chapa early.html): Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Franklin Pierce. Hawthorne graduated in 1825, at which time he passed the following twelve
years holed up in his mothers house writing his first novel, Fanshaw: A Tale. In his opinion this was the most terrible piece of writing he had produced to
date that he sought out all the copies he could and destroyed them. Following his first novel was his first volume of Twice-Told Tales. He then married Sophia
Peabody in 1842 and moved to Concord, Massachusetts where they began their family (Chapa early.html). Of his new acquaintances, Hawthorne became friendly with
the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller and Alcott, which helped him to compose his next set of short stories entitled Mosses from an Old Manse. Hawthornes new family posed
financial difficulties for the writer, whose salary at the Custom House was a mere twelve thousand dollars per year; interestingly, this episode in his life would later serve as the
opening to The Scarlet Letter, which was published in 1850 - the same year that he and his family moved to Lennox, Massachusetts. Next came The House of the
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