Nearly two centuries after Nathaniel Hawthorne’s graduation from Bowdoin College in 1825, the author’s work remains very much in the spotlight and has provided inspiration for such contemporary ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The Bowdoin College Class of 1825 is revered as the greatest in the school’s ...

The story's protagonist, an alchemist named Aylmer, convinces his wife Georgiana that he can safely remove a hand-shaped birthmark from her cheek, the lone blemish of an otherwise perfect physical ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne resided in Stockbridge (no, not Lenox) for just 15 months from August 1850 to November 1851, but he left his mark. He named everything that he saw from his writing room window: ...

In 1825, the great novelist-to-be Nathaniel Hawthorne sat, along with many fellow Bowdoin students, to have his likeness recorded by a silhouette artist. Or did he? Director of Special Collections & ...