# The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Author: Stearns, Frank Preston, 1846-1917

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7170

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## Summary

The three earliest settlements on the New England coast were Plymouth, Boston, and Salem; but Boston soon proved its superior advantages to the two others, not only from its more capacious harbor, but also from the convenient waterway which the Charles River afforded to the interior of the Colony. We find that a number of English families, and among them the ancestors of Gen. Joseph Warren and Wendell Phillips, who crossed the ocean in 1640 in the “good ship Arbella,” soon afterward migrated to Watertown on Charles River for the sake of the excellent farming lands which they found there. Salem, however, maintained its ascendency over Plymouth and other neighboring harbors on the coast, an...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-and-genius-of-nathaniel-hawthorne-7170/chapters/6/index.md)