Hildegarde Hawthorne (September 25, 1871 – December 10, 1952) was an American writer of supernatural and ghost stories, a poet and biographer.

Family

Born on September 25, 1871, in New York City, Hildegarde Hawthorne was the granddaughter of

Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with that t ...

(1804–1864) and eldest child of

Julian Hawthorne Julian Hawthorne (June 22, 1846 – July 14, 1934) was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous poems, novels, short stories, mysteries and detective fiction, essays, t ...

(1846–1934) and Minnie Amelung Hawthorne. She lived in Germany, England, and Jamaica as a child.

Career

At age sixteen Hildegarde began selling articles to the children's magazine

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. Her supernatural short story "Perdita," was published in the March 1897 Harper's Magazine. She wrote biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne,

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, Henry David Thoreau,

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, and

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Hawthorne also wrote travel narratives, including ''Old Seaport Towns of New England'' (1916), ''Rambles in Old College Towns'' (1917), ''Corsica: The Surprising Island'' (1926), ''Romantic Cities of California'' (1939), and ''Williamsburg, Old and New'' (1941). Hawthorne marched in the 1913 women's suffrage parade in New York City. She lived in California in the 1920s and 1930s. A collection of ghost stories by Hawthorne, ''The Faded Garden'', was published in 1985, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Her work is sometimes found in anthologies of American women's writing.

Personal life

Hildegarde Hawthorne married John Milton Oskison in 1920. She died in 1952, aged 81 years, in Danbury, Connecticut.

References

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