Hawthorne graduated middle of his class in 1825. Another classmate, Horatio Bridge, was later to offer a Boston publisher a guarantee against loss if he would publish Hawthorne's first collection of short stories. Among his classmates were Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who would become a distinguished poet and Harvard professor, and Franklin Pierce, future 14th president of the United States. In 1821, Hawthorne entered Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Nathaniel's fondest memories of these days were when "I ran quite wild, and would, I doubt not, have willingly run wild till this time, fishing all day long, or shooting with an old fowling piece." This idyllic life in the wilderness exerted its charm on the boy's imagination but ended in 1819 when he returned to Salem to prepare two years for college entrance.
Hathorne moved her family to land owned by the Mannings near Raymond, Maine. An injury allowed him to stay home for a year when he was nine, and his early "friends" were books by Shakespeare, Spenser, Bunyan, and 18th century novelists.ĭuring this time Mrs. Worcester, a well-known lexicographer, he was not particularly fond of school. While he studied at an early age with Joseph E. This period of Hawthorne's life was mixed with the joys of reading and the resentment of financial dependence. Here Nathaniel Hawthorn grew up in the company of women without a strong male role model this environment may account for what biographers call his shyness and introverted personality.
(Hawthorne added the "w" to his name after he graduated from college.) Following the death of Captain Hathorne in 1808, Nathaniel, his mother, and his two sisters were forced to move in with Mrs. Born July 4, 1804, Nathaniel Hathorne was the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne.
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