Front cover image for Sophia Peabody Hawthorne : a life

Sophia Peabody Hawthorne : a life

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”. 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.
Print Book, English, 2004-
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 2004-
Biography
volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780826215284, 9780826220479, 0826215289, 0826220479
1010907078
v. 1, 1809-1847: The Sanctuary of Sleeping Innocence
The Cold Calmness
The Wide and Healthful Atmosphere
a Mole Hill Is a Mountain
This Dismal and Squalid Chamber
Queen of All I Survey
Through a Peep-Hole
More Exposed
a Shy, But Not Quite Secluded Man
The Key To My Private Cabinet
Halloo Sir Solitary!
The Same Piercing, Indrawing Gaze
The Lover of Uncontained and Immortal Beauty
So Strong a Magnetic Attraction
Sophie, Naughty Sophie, Dove
A Perfect Eden
The Power of Counter-Forces
The Divine, The Life-Giving Touch!
A Real, Living Immortal Spirit!
More Poison In Thy Nature
Holiness & Rents
Forth Came this Sketch. v. 2, 1848-1871: Carefulness of Living
Imp and Angel
The Gods Prefer Integrity to Charity
An Art That Sufficed
Keep Thee Like a Lady
The Paradise of Children
Shock of Recognition
The Deeper Her Cry
The Revulsion of Joy
All Partings in This World Are Final
Sick to Death
At the Turning Tide
The Most Perfect Pictures
Like Sisters
I Am Near You
Pungent Little Particles of Satan
The Belleslettres Portion of My Being
He Needs Change Immensely
Have I Done My Duty?
Coining His Precious Brain into Gold
My Dear Friend
Starve Her into Compliance
Stillness and Silence