# Biographical Sketches (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces")

Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9245

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## Summary

The character of this female suggests a train of thought which will form as natural an Introduction to her story, as most of the Prefaces to Gay's Fables, or the tales of Prior; besides that, the general soundness of the moral may excuse any want of present applicability. We will not look for a living resemblance of Mrs. Hutchinson, though the search might not be altogether fruitless. But there are portentous indications, changes gradually taking place in the habits and feelings of the gentle sex, which seem to threaten our posterity with many of those public women, whereof one was a burden too grievous for our fathers. The press, however, is now the medium through which feminine ambition...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/biographical-sketches-from-fanshawe-and-other-pieces-9245/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/biographical-sketches-from-fanshawe-and-other-pieces-9245/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/biographical-sketches-from-fanshawe-and-other-pieces-9245/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/biographical-sketches-from-fanshawe-and-other-pieces-9245/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/biographical-sketches-from-fanshawe-and-other-pieces-9245/chapters/5/index.md)