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The son of a ship captain, Nathaniel Hathorne, and Elizabeth Clarke Manning, Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on Independence Day in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. His paternal ancestors came over from England in 1630, and his maternal ancestors in 1679. Hawthorne's father died in 1808, and his mother and her sisters raised him in Salem and at his maternal uncle's house in Raymond, Maine. There, Hawthorne spent time roaming the woods and taking long meditative walks around Lake Sebago, developing what he called his ‘‘cursed habits of solitude.’’ After graduating from Samuel Archer's...
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