1. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864

2. Family History His great-great-grandfather, William Hathorne, ordered the whipping of Anne Coleman and four others in the streets of Salem. His great-grandfather, John Hathorne, was the magistrate presiding over the trial of the accused witches of Salem (1692).

3. Childhood Born July 4, 1804 in Salem, MA Father died when Hawthorne was four years old Bowdoin College in Maine Bowdoin College is a private institution that was founded in 1794. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 1,795, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 205 acres. It utilizes a semester- based academic calendar. Bowdoin College's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 5. Its tuition and fees are $46,808 (2014-15).

4. Bowdoin College in Maine Classmates included Franklin Pierce and Henry Longfellow Pierce- future President of the USA Longfellow- poet, educator, linguist Graduated in 1825

5. Reclusive Years in Salem He first anonymously published short stories and a novel, Fanshawe. Hawthorne later formally withdrew most of this early work, discounting it as the work of inexperienced youth. He burned most of his works from these years.

6. Back into Society Editor for The American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge in 1836 Appointed to the Boston Custom House in 1839 Became engaged to Sophia Peabody, married in 1842

7. Concord After his marriage to Sophia, moved to Concord, Massachusetts. Joined the writing circles of Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Louisa May Alcott..

8. Influences on Hawthorne His early childhood in Salem and work in the Salem Custom House. His Puritan family background. He believed in the existence of the devil. He believed in determinism, a theory of predestination

9. Works Fanshawe (1828) Mosses from an Old Manse (1846) The Scarlet Letter (1850) The House of Seven Gables (1851) The Snow-Image (1851) The Blithedale Romance (1852) Life of Franklin Pierce (1852) The Marble Faun (1860)

10. Final Days Returned to the US from Europe in 1860 Returned to Concord Became ill and underwent a loss of literary creativity Journeyed to the White Mountains hoping to restore his health Died in Plymouth, NH on May 19, 1864 Buried in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord

11. The Puritans Puritanism is the religious reform movement of the 16 th and 17 th centuries seeking to purify the Church of England Characterized by earnest, intense moral and religious principles such as the necessary covenant relationship with God, the emphasis on preaching and the Holy Spirit’s dominance over reason as the instrument of salvation America: a Holy Commonwealth and a covenanted community

12. The Pilgrims Settlers of Plymouth, MA, the first permanent colony in New England – 1620 Members of the English Separatist Church, which was a radical faction of Puritanism

13. The Salem Witch Trials May – October 1692: Salem, MA Constitute a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 “witches” to be hanged and many others imprisoned Period of public hysteria generated by false accusations and coerced confessions

14. Transcendentalist Transcendentalism is a religious and philosophical movement that developed during the late 1820s and '30s[1] in the Eastern region of the United States as a protest against the general state of spirituality. Among the transcendentalists' core beliefs was the inherent goodness of both people and nature. They believe that society and its institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—ultimately corrupt the purity of the individual. They have faith that people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent. It is only from such real individuals that true community could be formed. A transcendentalist would not believe they need to go to church to receive salvation.

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