Sophia Peabody Hawthorne

Author : Patricia Dunlavy Valenti
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826273406

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Sophia Peabody Hawthorne by Patricia Dunlavy Valenti Pdf

As is often the case with spouses of celebrities, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne was overshadowed by her husband. While Nathaniel Hawthorne is renowned for numerous publications, including The Scarlet Letter, that staple in high school English curricula, Sophia’s remarkable life and career did not receive the recognition they deserve. She was, however, a source for many of Nathaniel’s stories and responsible for much that he accomplished. Sophia was an artist, one of the first in America to earn income from her painting and decorative arts; she was also a writer and traveler to foreign countries at a time when women typically confined their activities to the home. Patricia Dunlavy Valenti began to tell this story in Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Volume 1, 1809-1847 (2004). This biography concludes now in a second volume, which details the less examined and more surprising second half of Sophia’s life. Valenti’s thorough research culminates in a compelling, revealing account of Sophia’s travels to Britain and Europe and her intense personal relationships outside her marriage with men and women, among them notable figures in American history and literature. As an impoverished widow, Sophia dealt resourcefully with the consequences of her husband’s financial carelessness; as a mother, her liberal practices resulted in unintended, sometimes unfortunate consequences. Throughout every vicissitude, her relentless optimism prevailed. With the publication of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Volume 2, 1848-1871, Sophia emerges forever from the shadow cast by her husband. Historians and general readers alike will be drawn to this riveting account of an interesting, important woman and what her life reveals about American history and culture at a moment of national conflict, emerging class divisions, and evolving gender roles.

Author : Patricia Dunlavy Valenti
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826215289

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Sophia Peabody Hawthorne by Patricia Dunlavy Valenti Pdf

Sophia Peabody Hawthorne is known almost exclusively in her role as the wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who portrayed her as the fragile, ethereal, infirm "Dove." That image, invented by Nathaniel to serve his needs and affirm his manhood, was passed on by his biographers, who accepted their subject's perception without question. In fact, the real Sophia was very different from Nathaniel's construction of her. An independent, sensuous, daring woman, Sophia was an accomplished artist before her marriage to Nathaniel. Moreover, what she brought to their union inspired Nathaniel's imagination beyond the limits of his previously confined existence. In Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Patricia Dunlavy Valenti situates the story of Sophia's life within its own historical, philosophical, and cultural background, as well as within the context of her marriage. Valenti begins with parallel biographies that present Sophia, and then Nathaniel, at comparable periods in their lives. Sophia was born into an expansive, somewhat chaotic home in which women provided financial as well as emotional sustenance. She was a precocious, eager student whose rigorous education, in her mother's and her sisters' schools, began her association with the children of New England's elite. Sophia aspired to become a professional, self-supporting painter, exhibiting her art and seeking criticism from established mentors. She relished an eighteen-month sojourn in Cuba. Nathaniel's reclusive family, his reluctant early education, his anonymous pursuit of a career, and his relatively circumscribed life contrast markedly with the experience of the woman who became his wife and the mother of his children. Those differences resulted in a creative abrasion that ignited his fiction during the first years of their marriage. Volume 1 of this biography concludes with Sophia's negotiation of the Hawthornes' departure from the Old Manse and the birth of their second child. This period also coincides with the conclusion of Nathaniel's major phase of short story writing. Sophia Peabody Hawthorne is an engrossing story of a nineteenth-century American life. It analyzes influences upon authorship and questions the boundaries of intellectual property in the domestic sphere. The book also offers fresh interpretations of Nathaniel Hawthorne's fiction, examining it through the lens of Sophia's vibrant personality and diverse interests. Students and scholars of American literature, literary theory, feminism, and cultural history will find much to enrich their understanding of this woman and this era.

Author : Erika Robuck
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451474650

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The House of Hawthorne by Erika Robuck Pdf

"Spanning the years from the 1830s to the Civil War, and moving from Massachusetts to England, Portugal, and Italy, [this book] explores the tension within a famous marriage of two soulful, strong-willed people, each devoted to the other but also driven by a powerful need to explore the far reaches of their creative impulses. It is the story of a forgotten woman in history who inspired one of the greatest writers of American literature"--Dust jacket flap.

Author : LouAnn Bigge Gaeddert,LouAnn Gaeddert
Publisher : Dial Books
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Authors' spouses
ISBN : UCAL:B4445897

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A New England Love Story by LouAnn Bigge Gaeddert,LouAnn Gaeddert Pdf

Relates the love story of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody based on their letters and journals.

Author : Monika M. Elbert,Julie E. Hall,Katharine Rodier
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781587297175

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Reinventing the Peabody Sisters by Monika M. Elbert,Julie E. Hall,Katharine Rodier Pdf

Whether in the public realm as political activists, artists, teachers, biographers, editors, and writers or in the more traditional role of domestic, nurturing women, Elizabeth Peabody, Mary Peabody Mann, and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne subverted rigid nineteenth-century definitions of women’s limited realm of influence. Reinventing the Peabody Sisters seeks to redefine this dynamic trio’s relationship to the literary and political movements of the mid nineteenth century. Previous scholarship has romanticized, vilified, or altogether erased their influences and literary productions or viewed these individuals solely in light of their relationships to other nineteenth-century luminaries, particularly men---Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Horace Mann. This collection underscores that each woman was a creative force in her own right. Despite their differences and sibling conflicts, all three sisters thrived in the rarefied---if economically modest---atmosphere of a childhood household that glorified intellectual and artistic pursuits. This background allowed each woman to negotiate the nineteenth-century literary marketplace and in the process redefine its scope. Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia remained linked throughout their lives, encouraging, complementing, and sometimes challenging each other’s endeavors while also contributing to each other’s literary work. The essays in this collection examine the sisters’ confrontations with and involvement in the intellectual movements and social conflicts of the nineteenth century, including Transcendentalism, the Civil War, the role of women, international issues, slavery, Native American rights, and parenting. Among the most revealing writings that the sisters left behind, however, are those which explore the interlaced relationship that continued throughout their remarkable lives.

Author : T. Walter Herbert
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520916565

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Dearest Beloved by T. Walter Herbert Pdf

The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne—for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness—was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected the tensions within nineteenth-century society. In so doing, he sheds new light on Hawthorne's fiction, with its obsessive themes of guilt and grief, balked feminism and homosexual seduction, adultery, patricide, and incest.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne,Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0871692562

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Ordinary Mysteries by Nathaniel Hawthorne,Sophia Peabody Hawthorne Pdf

From the summer of 1842 through the fall of 1843, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne kept a common journal of their daily lives in a notebook. The journal records the ordinary events and activities that occupied them as newlyweds: walks through the countryside around Concord, appraisals of their new home, encounters with neighbors (among them Emerson, Fuller, and Thoreau), descriptions of the weather and the changing seasons -- all material that Hawthorne would later draw on for the preface to his second collection of tales, "Mosses from an Old Manse" (1846). Its most persistent note, however, is the mutual expression of marital happiness. This volume makes available for the first time a full facsimile edition of the journal.

Author : Megan Marshall
Publisher : HMH
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547348759

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The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall Pdf

Pulitzer Prize Finalist: “A stunning work of biography” about three little-known New England women who made intellectual history (The New York Times). Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways the American Brontës. The story of these remarkable sisters—and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day—has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making, Megan Marshall’s monumental biography brings the era of creative ferment known as American Romanticism to new life. Elizabeth Peabody, the oldest sister, was a mind-on-fire influence on the great writers of the era—Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau among them—who also published some of their earliest works; it was she who prodded these newly minted Transcendentalists away from Emerson’s individualism and toward a greater connection to others. Middle sister Mary Peabody was a passionate reformer who finally found her soul mate in the great educator Horace Mann. And the frail Sophia, an admired painter among the preeminent society artists of the day, married Nathaniel Hawthorne—but not before Hawthorne threw the delicate dynamics among the sisters into disarray. Casting new light on a legendary American era, and on three sisters who made an indelible mark on history, Marshall’s unprecedented research uncovers thousands of never-before-seen letters as well as other previously unmined original sources. “A massive enterprise,” The Peabody Sisters is an event in American biography (The New York Times Book Review). “Marshall’s book is a grand story . . . where male and female minds and sensibilities were in free, fruitful communion, even if men could exploit this cultural richness far more easily than women.” —The Washington Post “Marshall has greatly increased our understanding of these women and their times in one of the best literary biographies to come along in years.” —New England Quarterly

Author : Patricia Dunlavy Valenti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826262597

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Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life by Patricia Dunlavy Valenti Pdf

Author : Julian Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X001610016

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Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife by Julian Hawthorne Pdf

Author : Натаниель Готорн
Publisher : Litres
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040868551

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The Wives of the Dead by Натаниель Готорн Pdf

Author : Julian Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015019381659

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Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife by Julian Hawthorne Pdf

Author : Julian Hawthorne
Publisher : Shoe String Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0208006729

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Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife by Julian Hawthorne Pdf

Author : Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : England
ISBN : PRNC:32101047589872

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Notes in England and Italy by Sophia Peabody Hawthorne Pdf

Author : Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00041546

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Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife by Hawthorne Pdf