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Article: Edwin Haviland Miller, Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne.(Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family)(Book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
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- September 22, 1994
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Edwin Haviland Miller, Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne (U Iowa P, 1991), xviii + 596 pp., $35.00 cloth; $16.95 paper.
T. Walter Herbert, Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family (U California P, 1993), xx + 331 pp., $28.00 cloth.
No age is more aware of a biographer's problems than our own, or more aware that two Hawthorne biographers working at the same time and with access to the same materials are bound to produce radically different books. The very titles of Edwin Haviland Miller's Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne and T. Walter Herbert's Dearest Beloved: The ...