Word: faun
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland began the lecture by stating briefly the birth, lineage and circumstances of the author of "The Scarlet Letter," "The House of the Seven Gables," "The Blithedale Romance," and "The Marble Faun," Hawthorne was descended from William Hathorne, who came over to New England with Governor Winthrop. Both this first American ancestor and his son John were men of mark in the little colony. But they were also infamously noted, one for causing Shaker women to be whipped, the other for his cruel treatment of the Salem witches. John Hathorne, it is credibly reported, was cursed...
...Copeland said a few words about each of the four famous novels, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun. The Scarlet Letter is Hawthorne's masterpiece, and is, in the lecturer's opinion, the greatest literary work of the imagination produced on this side of the water. The Blithedale Romance differs from all of Hawthorne's other works in containing Zenobia, the one dramatically conceived and completely expressed character which this author has offered us. But in many of their traits both the novels and the shorter tales are alike...
Bowdoin College has just received a cast of the Marble Faun. The original, by Proxitiles, is in the Capitoline at Rome. The cast was presented to the college by the class...