A New England Love Story (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: LouAnn Gaeddert
- First Published: 1980
- Time of Work: 1802–1871
- Setting: Salem and Boston, Massachusetts, and England
- Principal Characters: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Mary Peabody, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Louisa Hawthorne, Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne, Elizabeth Peabody, Horatio Bridge
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Love or romance, Authors or writers, Literature, Marriage, New England, Letter writing, Sisters, Sick persons, Biography
- Locales: Boston, MA, England, Salem, MA
Form and Content
LouAnn Gaeddert’s A New England Love Story: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody is a romantic story of the wonderful love shared by Hawthorne and Peabody and how their lives converged. In addition, Gaeddert’s book gives young readers a view of an important period of American cultural history sometimes known as the American Renaissance. The great nineteenth century figures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Margaret Fuller, Horace Mann, and others were all part of the same New...
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