The Puritans did NOT think "the only way to Heaven" was "to lead a busy, fruitful life." The Puritans were carriers of the legacy of the Reformation, and believed that salvation was by faith in Jesus Christ as Lord God Incarnate and Savior.
You are very mistaken in thinking the Puritans were of one faith, they were diverse in their religious beliefs. I am a cousin to Hawthorn and Pierce and we were all Quakers, yes you heard that, Quakers from the start who endured much persecution from the Boston Church. Fortunately we were wealthy and moved to Connecticut and Rhode Island founding numerous towns that had congregations independent of Boston. Our number one tenet is good works. Ryan Reynolds theological history channel here on UA-cam goes into this in detail since you haven't done your homework.
Visiting Salem and Concord, MA gave me a better understanding of Hawthorne’s work. Standing in front of the Custom House and the House of the Seven Gables (now a tourist trap) gave me insight to the first part of “The Scarlet Letter) and also about the curse of the Pynchon family in “House of the Seven Gables”. Likewise visiting Concord to see his home and his burial place. The cemetery where he’s buried is a fascinating place to spend time in. I also visited where the Old Man in the Mountain used to be before Nature and erosion finally took its toll on that fascinating outcrop of stone. Both my dad and his mother as well as my 4th grade teacher often read that story to me. Being able to actually visit where the Old Man used to be was the fulfillment of a childhood wish to see the Great Stone Face in the White Mountains of NH. My personal opinion is that Hawthorne is an author who deserves to be much more popular as a writer than he is.
Thanks for this documentary - really enjoyed it! (One slight correction, though, The Berkshires are considered to be in Western MA, not upstate NY.) Hawthorne's wife, Sophia, was a painter from a really interesting family - great book about them by Megan Marshall, "THE PEABODY SISTERS: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism."
Berkshire County, MA has at least 1/2 dozen cities/towns that border Western NY. I agree that Berkshire County is in Massachusetts. Some people do view the hills ("mountains") as part of and dividing the two states. I heard a few upstate NY'ers call the mountain range the Teutonics. I later found out they were talking about what us Mass-holes call the Bershires.
This was very interesting.I never knew much about him, but always enjoyed his writing.I recently discovered he's my cousin, and so is Franklin Pierce.I learned quite a bit from this documentary.
Loved the documentary on Hawthorne. I hadn't realized his connection with US President Franklin Pierce, which was way cool to see! Who knows what Hawthorne could have written if he had not passed away suddenly. I was in Salem, MA many years ago, in the late 80s, but at that time hadn't realized who the author was, or that he was from that town. But I have grown to respect him and his work!
Thanks for the post. Hawthorne is an intriguing and distinctly American writer whose influence is controversial and ill understood (I'm still wrapping my head around it). Great channel, too. I subscribed!
Surinam is on the northeast coast of South America between Guyana and French Giana; it was formerly known as "Dutch Giana"- A bloody long way from Indonesia!
Dutch Suriname, where Hawthorne's father died from yellow fever, is not in present-day "faraway Indonesia." It is the present-day Republic of Suriname, which is on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America.
To quote a segment of “family guy” regarding hawthorn: “Oh just ruining 9th grade for everyone” (Now if you’ll excuse me I feel like I need a shower after quoting family guy 🤢)
It is interesting to note that Hawthorne's daughter became a Catholic nun. A biography of the woman, "Sorrow Built a Bridge" is a fascinating read. God bless
Converting to Catholicism was a thing among the Unitarian elite in Boston due the cultural superiority of the Catholics (before the Irish takeover of the church). The nun superior of the Catholic convent in Charlestown that was burned down by a Protestant mob was a covert from a prominent Unitarian family. Some speculate that the mob would have dispersed without doing hatm had it not been for the condescending and arrogant scolding they received from this upper class nun. At that time it was a popular thing that nuns were killing and burying their babies inside their convents. Col Shaw of the famous black Civil War regiment did not convert but he spent a year studying with the Jesuits at Fordham University in NYC.
And the all commit these shameless crimes 'in the name of God'! Just as it is done today by religious leaders and even politicians. What a blasphemy. And believing not be hold accountable.
His great-great grandfather presided as judge during the witch trials in Salem. Nathaniel Hawthorne tried to distanced himself from the shameful legacy of his grandfather by changing his surname to Hathorne from Hawthorne.
It's always fascinating to trace the steps by which the Colonists ( basically English by birth and upbringing ) diverged from the Mother Country as time passed and became " Americans " with their own distinct literary voice.
@@AuthorDocumentaries Thanks. And thanks for the video. I really enjoyed it, especially the visuals, and I intend to watch it again soon. I've been to Salem and Concord and Lenox and Pittsfield and the paintings and photos brought back memories. I' ve read Brenda Wineapple's bio of Hawthorne and I recommend it; and I've watched Ms. Wineapple's interview with the estimable Brian Lamb on C-SPAN a few times and that's worth a look. But to get back: I hadn't known Howells wrote poetry. Melville did, too, but few people think of him first as poet. Thanks for all the great videos. I watch them all.
@@JohnPaul-le4pf The same goes for Hemingway too. I guess if their novels overshadow the poetry, they're novelists first. I had to look up Howells just to see why the researcher included that here. I read Silas Lapham and knew Howells as a novelist too. Thanks for the suggestions. I wish I could visit that area of New England. I'm only in New York, so I'll add it to the bucket list. A descendant of Hawthorne visited my school once - Alison Hawthorne Deming, so there's that. I read 2 of her books of poems. Anyway, glad you're liking the docs!
Love his writings: Fanshawe (published anonymously, 1828)[129] The Scarlet Letter, A Romance (1850) The House of the Seven Gables, A Romance (1851) The Blithedale Romance (1852) The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni (1860) (as Transformation: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, UK publication, same year) The Dolliver Romance (1863) (unfinished) Septimius Felton; or, the Elixir of Life (unfinished, published in the Atlantic Monthly, 1872) Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A Romance (unfinished, with preface and notes by Julian Hawthorne, 1882) Short story collections Twice-Told Tales (1837) Grandfather's Chair (1840) Mosses from an Old Manse (1846) A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1851) The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales (1852) Tanglewood Tales (1853) The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces (1876) The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains (1889) Selected short stories "The Hollow of the Three Hills" (1830) "Roger Malvin's Burial" (1832) "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (1832) "Young Goodman Brown" (1835) "The Minister's Black Veil" (1836) "The Gray Champion" (1835) "The White Old Maid" (1835) "Wakefield" (1835) "The Ambitious Guest" (1835) "The Man of Adamant" (1837) "The May-Pole of Merry Mount" (1837) "The Great Carbuncle" (1837) "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" (1837) "A Virtuoso's Collection" (May 1842) "The Birth-Mark" (March 1843) "The Celestial Railroad" (1843) "Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" (1843) "Earth's Holocaust" (1844) "Rappaccini's Daughter" (1844) "P.'s Correspondence" (1845) "The Artist of the Beautiful" (1846) "Fire Worship" (1846) "Ethan Brand" (1850) "The Great Stone Face" (1850) "Feathertop" (1852) Nonfiction Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny (written 1851, published 1904) Our Old Home (1863) Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks (1871) See also
So as a catholic myself, I think you misunderstand how the Pope works. He is not a ruler or really in charge of much. He is only a leader. You could actually just call him the bishop of Rome. Bishops have more power over the churches than the Pope does. But other than that, a spectacular documentary.
Study of Hawthorne & Melville have come to the conclusion that the two may have been gay. Melville seems to have had a crush on him. Hawthorne was not thrilled with getting married. Melville’s “Moby Dick” is full of homoerotic passages. These bios with the British narrator are ok, but there are mistakes. Don’t stop here, read the authors’ books & READ their biographies.
A tendentious presentation of Puritan thought. The Puritans were believers in the gospel of grace, and they did not work so hard to earn heaven but because heaven was their home. How can one who is not a believer understand this? He cannot.
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The Puritans did NOT think "the only way to Heaven" was "to lead a busy, fruitful life." The Puritans were carriers of the legacy of the Reformation, and believed that salvation was by faith in Jesus Christ as Lord God Incarnate and Savior.
You are very mistaken in thinking the Puritans were of one faith, they were diverse in their religious beliefs. I am a cousin to Hawthorn and Pierce and we were all Quakers, yes you heard that, Quakers from the start who endured much persecution from the Boston Church. Fortunately we were wealthy and moved to Connecticut and Rhode Island founding numerous towns that had congregations independent of Boston. Our number one tenet is good works. Ryan Reynolds theological history channel here on UA-cam goes into this in detail since you haven't done your homework.
They murdered Indians.
@@indi-f8j Yes, as the first ones that landed at Plymouth were followed by Puritans of a conquering mein.
@@indi-f8jthose quakers were protestants... believe in the same jesus, different orthodoxy
What did the reformation have to do with anything in the America's? What mindset are you talking about?
Hawthorne wrote president Pierce's inaugural speech! What a great honor that I never knew of my favorite author 💗 Thank you for the documentary!
Visiting Salem and Concord, MA gave me a better understanding of Hawthorne’s work. Standing in front of the Custom House and the House of the Seven Gables (now a tourist trap) gave me insight to the first part of “The Scarlet Letter) and also about the curse of the Pynchon family in “House of the Seven Gables”. Likewise visiting Concord to see his home and his burial place. The cemetery where he’s buried is a fascinating place to spend time in. I also visited where the Old Man in the Mountain used to be before Nature and erosion finally took its toll on that fascinating outcrop of stone. Both my dad and his mother as well as my 4th grade teacher often read that story to me. Being able to actually visit where the Old Man used to be was the fulfillment of a childhood wish to see the Great Stone Face in the White Mountains of NH. My personal opinion is that Hawthorne is an author who deserves to be much more popular as a writer than he is.
Thanks for this documentary - really enjoyed it! (One slight correction, though, The Berkshires are considered to be in Western MA, not upstate NY.) Hawthorne's wife, Sophia, was a painter from a really interesting family - great book about them by Megan Marshall, "THE PEABODY SISTERS: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism."
Berkshire County, MA has at least 1/2 dozen cities/towns that border Western NY.
I agree that Berkshire County is in Massachusetts. Some people do view the hills ("mountains") as part of and dividing the two states. I heard a few upstate NY'ers call the mountain range the Teutonics. I later found out they were talking about what us Mass-holes call the Bershires.
Hawthorne's red house near Lenox is in Massachusetts, (not in New York State as the commentator on this video states).
I can never forget Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
Boston public television's version of " The Scarlett Letter ", is my favorite. I'd love to know who walked of that set, with that Scarlett Letter!
@@finalflowerchild Yes it is
This was very interesting.I never knew much about him, but always enjoyed his writing.I recently discovered he's my cousin, and so is Franklin Pierce.I learned quite a bit from this documentary.
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Welcome to the channel 💙💙💙
Loved the documentary on Hawthorne. I hadn't realized his connection with US President Franklin Pierce, which was way cool to see! Who knows what Hawthorne could have written if he had not passed away suddenly. I was in Salem, MA many years ago, in the late 80s, but at that time hadn't realized who the author was, or that he was from that town. But I have grown to respect him and his work!
Thanks for the post. Hawthorne is an intriguing and distinctly American writer whose influence is controversial and ill understood (I'm still wrapping my head around it). Great channel, too. I subscribed!
Hawthorne can certainly be complex, distanced from the other transcendentalists. Thanks and welcome aboard!
Beautiful documentary.
Lovely documentaries, really enjoyable to watch!
Surinam is on the northeast coast of South America between Guyana and French Giana; it was formerly known as "Dutch Giana"- A bloody long way from Indonesia!
Dutch Suriname, where Hawthorne's father died from yellow fever, is not in present-day "faraway Indonesia." It is the present-day Republic of Suriname, which is on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America.
To quote a segment of “family guy” regarding hawthorn:
“Oh just ruining 9th grade for everyone”
(Now if you’ll excuse me I feel like I need a shower after quoting family guy 🤢)
😆
It is interesting to note that Hawthorne's daughter became a Catholic nun. A biography of the woman, "Sorrow Built a Bridge" is a fascinating read.
God bless
Converting to Catholicism was a thing among the Unitarian elite in Boston due the cultural superiority of the Catholics (before the Irish takeover of the church). The nun superior of the Catholic convent in Charlestown that was burned down by a Protestant mob was a covert from a prominent Unitarian family. Some speculate that the mob would have dispersed without doing hatm had it not been for the condescending and arrogant scolding they received from this upper class nun. At that time it was a popular thing that nuns were killing and burying their babies inside their convents. Col Shaw of the famous black Civil War regiment did not convert but he spent a year studying with the Jesuits at Fordham University in NYC.
And the all commit these shameless crimes 'in the name of God'! Just as it is done today by religious leaders and even politicians. What a blasphemy. And believing not be hold accountable.
@@johnmcgrath6192 There is your problem with Catholicism-the Jesuits.
Loved reading a collection of his short stories.
Can anyone help me - what's the name of the piece at the beginning - a movement from a Schubert or Schumann sonata?
Schubert - impromptu no.3
ua-cam.com/video/w_z9oSn-eIM/v-deo.html
Please upload a Herman Melville doc next.
I can do that. I have just the thing.
@@AuthorDocumentaries Thank you!
I enjoyed this since Hawthorne is one of my favorite novelists. The House of the Seven Gables is the novel of his I love the best.
From what I've read, my conclusion is that it was Hawthorne's favorite, too.
I had hoped for a hint of the encounter/tale of the situation prompting the fiction of Hester Prynne"s tragedy!
His great-great grandfather presided as judge during the witch trials in Salem. Nathaniel Hawthorne tried to distanced himself from the shameful legacy of his grandfather by changing his surname to Hathorne from Hawthorne.
Discussed at 9:28 in the video above,
Wonderful, thank you. The only thing I would say, is that you have 1825 and 1828, as 1815 and 1818.
This biography is sprinkled with little jokes. Whoever wrote the script is quite entertaining.
Problematic portions in this bio
Nicely done!
I attended Camp Hawthorne, in Raymond Maine.I don't know if his family home is still standing.
Wow that's a lot of good authors from that place
I’m about to tour through the nathanial Hawthorne house in Salem with my girlfriend
It's always fascinating to trace the steps by which the Colonists ( basically
English by birth and upbringing ) diverged from the Mother Country as time passed and became " Americans " with their own distinct literary voice.
William Dean Howells was a novelist, not a poet.
Yeah, I agree with that. He published a book of poetry, but I'd call him a novelist too. Good catch!
@@AuthorDocumentaries
Thanks. And thanks for the video. I
really enjoyed it, especially the visuals, and I intend to watch it again soon. I've been to Salem and Concord and Lenox and Pittsfield and the paintings and photos brought back memories.
I' ve read Brenda Wineapple's bio of Hawthorne and I recommend it; and I've watched Ms. Wineapple's interview with the estimable Brian Lamb on C-SPAN a few times and that's worth a look.
But to get back: I hadn't known Howells wrote poetry. Melville did, too, but few people think of him first as poet.
Thanks for all the great videos. I watch them all.
@@JohnPaul-le4pf The same goes for Hemingway too. I guess if their novels overshadow the poetry, they're novelists first. I had to look up Howells just to see why the researcher included that here. I read Silas Lapham and knew Howells as a novelist too.
Thanks for the suggestions. I wish I could visit that area of New England. I'm only in New York, so I'll add it to the bucket list. A descendant of Hawthorne visited my school once - Alison Hawthorne Deming, so there's that. I read 2 of her books of poems. Anyway, glad you're liking the docs!
@@AuthorDocumentaries
Salem and Concord, especially, would really be worth the trip.
@@JohnPaul-le4pf There's so much history there. I'm doing it.
Very nice! But, I was hoping Melville would have had a greater part. But, they were quite different.
Very good doc., outstanding
Can you fix the auto captions to be accurate?
Love his writings:
Fanshawe (published anonymously, 1828)[129]
The Scarlet Letter, A Romance (1850)
The House of the Seven Gables, A Romance (1851)
The Blithedale Romance (1852)
The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni (1860) (as Transformation: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, UK publication, same year)
The Dolliver Romance (1863) (unfinished)
Septimius Felton; or, the Elixir of Life (unfinished, published in the Atlantic Monthly, 1872)
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A Romance (unfinished, with preface and notes by Julian Hawthorne, 1882)
Short story collections
Twice-Told Tales (1837)
Grandfather's Chair (1840)
Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1851)
The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales (1852)
Tanglewood Tales (1853)
The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces (1876)
The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains (1889)
Selected short stories
"The Hollow of the Three Hills" (1830)
"Roger Malvin's Burial" (1832)
"My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (1832)
"Young Goodman Brown" (1835)
"The Minister's Black Veil" (1836)
"The Gray Champion" (1835)
"The White Old Maid" (1835)
"Wakefield" (1835)
"The Ambitious Guest" (1835)
"The Man of Adamant" (1837)
"The May-Pole of Merry Mount" (1837)
"The Great Carbuncle" (1837)
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" (1837)
"A Virtuoso's Collection" (May 1842)
"The Birth-Mark" (March 1843)
"The Celestial Railroad" (1843)
"Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" (1843)
"Earth's Holocaust" (1844)
"Rappaccini's Daughter" (1844)
"P.'s Correspondence" (1845)
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1846)
"Fire Worship" (1846)
"Ethan Brand" (1850)
"The Great Stone Face" (1850)
"Feathertop" (1852)
Nonfiction
Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny (written 1851, published 1904)
Our Old Home (1863)
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks (1871)
See also
So as a catholic myself, I think you misunderstand how the Pope works. He is not a ruler or really in charge of much. He is only a leader. You could actually just call him the bishop of Rome. Bishops have more power over the churches than the Pope does. But other than that, a spectacular documentary.
Wonderful!
I love him so ❤❤ thanks 🤗🤗
Study of Hawthorne & Melville have come to the conclusion that the two may have been gay. Melville seems to have had a crush on him. Hawthorne was not thrilled with getting married. Melville’s “Moby Dick” is full of homoerotic passages. These bios with the British narrator are ok, but there are mistakes. Don’t stop here, read the authors’ books & READ their biographies.
Thank you 🙏 🤍
I love to learn the back story of the writers
Anglo educated. Can't beat it! New England was full of it, thankfully.
He " tasted the World " .....in Leamington Spa ?!?!?
A life of poignancy and purpose…something we artistic people strive to have.
A tendentious presentation of Puritan thought. The Puritans were believers in the gospel of grace, and they did not work so hard to earn heaven but because heaven was their home. How can one who is not a believer understand this? He cannot.
Salem...
Haha....women swooned...too funny
it is a documentary about the writer and you are talking about the shitty weather?
What's he remembered for two novels neither have I have any interest in! Wonderful I'm sure.
Cool dose to the icon the greatest brother ever continue to rest in power brother we miss you 😭😭😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺🥺😭😭 and there's no such thing as race at all peace ✌
Its funny.... You see, sadly a Lot is wrong.. worse than Putin talking about Ukraine history
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