Critical Commentary Related to Nathaniel Hawthorne's Adult Life
W. H. Getchell photograph of Nathaniel Hawthorne done at the firm of Silsbee, Case, and Getchell, 299 1/2 Washington St., Boston, 19 December, 1861(courtesy of Northern Illinois UP)
On Salem in transition: the changed city to which Hawthorne returned after his graduation from Bowdoin in 1825, from "Salem After College" in The Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Margaret B. Moore, pp. 123-125 (courtesy University of Missouri Press)
On Hawthorne's life in Concord in the first winter after his marriage to Sophia Peabody on July 9, 1842 and the following summer on the first anniversary of their marriage from Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times by James R. Mellow pp. 217 and 229 (courtesy of the author and Johns Hopkins University Press)
On the return of the Hawthornes to Concord in 1852 and their purchase of The Wayside from "Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne" in Student Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne by Melissa McFarland Pennell, p. 7 (courtesy of Greenwood Press)
On Hawthorne's life in Europe from July 16,1853-June 16, 1860, from "Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne" in Student Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne by Melissa McFarland Pennell, pp. 7-8 (courtesy of Greenwood Press)
On the Hawthorne family's return to Concord in 1860 and Hawthorne's death in Plymouth, New Hampshire on May 19, 1864 from "Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne" in Student Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne by Melissa McFarland Pennell, p. 8 (courtesy of Greenwood Press)
