The House of the Seven Gables: Biography: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804, Nathaniel Hawthorne was a descendant of one Judge Hathorne who had been a member of the tribunal that sentenced 20 people to death for witchcraft in 1692. As readers of The House of the Seven Gables will soon discover, the family history loomed large in Hawthornes mind. He was …
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