Nathaniel Hawthorne - Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA
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On top of Author's Ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is the family plot and grave of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is buried near the graves of of Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Waymark Code: WMN1P7
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 12/08/2014
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, MA on July 4, 1804. He graduated Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1825 and published his first novel, Fanshaw, in 1828, followed by several short stories. In 1837 he published the collection of short stories, Twice-Told Tales. In 1846 he started working as the Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Salem but in 1850 he returned to writing and published his classic novel The Scarlett Letter. He soon followed with another famous novel The House of Seven Gables.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was inspired by his Puritan roots to create stories with moral allegories. His writings are sychologically complex and are often based on the themes of good and evil. They are part of a sub-genre of the Romantic movement called Dark Romanticism. Hawthorn died on May 19, 1864 and is buried on Author's Ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, MA.
Author's Ridge contains the graves of the four elite members of the Boston literary world of the 19th century. In sequential order you will find the family plots, including the graves, of these four famous contemporary authors: Henry David Thoreau ( July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862), Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864), Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888), and Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882). The Thoreau, Hawthorne and Alcott graves are clustered together while a sign points to the grave of Emerson a short distance east along the ridge.
Nathaniel Hawthorne is buried in a large family plot. His headstone is in the northeast corner of the plot. In keeping with his personal austerity, it is a small simple headstone with the single word HAWTHORNE inscribed upon it.
Wikipedia lists the following works by Nathaniel Hawthorne:
Novels
Fanshawe (published anonymously, 1828)
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
The Blithedale Romance (1852)
The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni (1860) (as Transformation: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, UK publication, same year)
The Dolliver Romance (1863) (unfinished)
Septimus Felton; or, the Elixir of Life (Published in the Atlantic Monthly, 1872)
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance (unfinished), with Preface and Notes by Julian Hawthorne (1882)
Short story collections
Twice-Told Tales (1837)
Grandfather's Chair (1840)
Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1851)
The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales (1852)
Tanglewood Tales (1853)
The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces (1876)
The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains (1889)
The Celestial Railroad and Other Short Stories
A Wonder-Book for Young and Old (1851) Publisher: The Rogers Company
Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny (1851) Publisher: NYRB Classics (May 31, 2003)
Selected short stories
"Roger Malvin's Burial" (1832)
"My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (1832)
"Young Goodman Brown" (1835)
"The Gray Champion" (1835)
"The White Old Maid" (1835)
"Wakefield" (1835)
"The Ambitious Guest" (1835)
"The Minister's Black Veil" (1836)
"The Man of Adamant" (1837)
"The Maypole of Merry Mount" (1837)
"The Great Carbuncle" (1837)
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" (1837)
"A Virtuoso's Collection" (May 1842)
"The Birth-Mark" (March 1843)
"Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" (1843)
"Rappaccini's Daughter" (1844)
"P.'s Correspondence" (1845)
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1846)
"Ethan Brand" (1850)
"The Great Stone Face" (1850)
"Feathertop" (1852)
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