Tag: nathaniel hawthorne
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Book Review: The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
My father lived in a cursed house as a child. Every night an old hag with a red kerchief wrapped around her head climbed the shingles of the house up to his window and knocked with her boney fingers until he woke with a start. My uncle was hit by a truck in that house.…
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Sunday at Middlemay Farm
“Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
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9 Signs You May Have Mistakenly Joined a Dystopian/Utopian Community
“I had staked no valuable amount of hope or fear; it had enabled me to pass the summer in a novel and agreeable way, [and] afforded me some grotesque specimens of artificial simplicity.”
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Thoughts on Romantic Reformers
“When the romantic fails to illuminate or enlighten others, and when social reform is slow to come—or seems not to come at all—then he or she can only resort to violence.” The Nation review of Man’s Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War by Philip F. Gura “They have no heart,…
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“Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman.”
Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or—and the outward semblance is the…
Author Adrienne Morris 