My Dear Sister: Nathaniel Hawthorne And His Sisters

Date: June 22 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Cost: $25

A lecture by author Kris Hansen

This lecture includes a comparison of the opposing personalities of Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne and her 6-year-younger sister, Maria Louisa, with excerpts from personal letters to illustrate their individual qualities. Extracts from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writings provide examples where he possibly modelled specific traits of fictional characters from his sisters, such as Hepzibah and Phoebe in The House of the Seven Gables.