The Blithedale Romance

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The Blithedale Romance is set mostly in the utopian society of Blithedale, probably in the 1800s. The central figure of the narrative, Miles Coverdale, voyages to the furtherance of humanity through the agricultural means and society of the Blithedale Farm. It starts with a dialogue among Coverdale and Old Moodie, a fellow who recurs in the novel. The myth of the enigmatic Veiled Lady is brought in; she is a prominent psychic who ceased to exist unpublicized from the societal representation. Coverdale afterward goes to Blithedale, where he is made known to Zenobia and Mr. and Mrs. Silas Foster. During their first social event, they are interposed by the coming of Hollingsworth, a former colleague of Coverdale’s, who is accompanied by a feeble, pallid little girl. But Hollingsworth assumes the little girl is an awaited invitee, no one even knows her. She quickly devotes herself to Zenobia, and divulges herself as Priscilla.

Notable writer Henry James defined The Blithedale Romance as “the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest” of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “unhumorous fictions.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne was a United States writer, fiery love stories, and short fiction writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His forefathers were John Hathorne, the only judge implicated in the Salem witch tribulations who did not apologize for his adversities. Then he affixed a “w” to alter his surname to “Hawthorne” so as to conceal this ordeal. He arrived in Bowdoin College, was voted to Phi Beta Kappa , and eventually completed his studies. He released Fanshawe; his first novel, though he made efforts to overturn it, sensing that it was not similarly written from his subsequent novels. He issued innumerous short fiction in magazines, which he gathered together as Twice-Told Tales.
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