{"product_id":"sophia-peabody-hawthorne-a-life-volume-1-1809-1847-paperback-softback-9780807185407","title":"Sophia Peabody Hawthorne; A Life, Volume 1, 1809–1847 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780807185407","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSophia Peabody Hawthorne\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Life, Volume 1, 1809–1847\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatricia Dunlavy Valenti (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807185407\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 March 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e322 pages, 18 Halftones, unspecified\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 1.8 x 15.2 cm, 0.488 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A critical piece of scholarship on American women artists and women's contributions to transcendentalism, this book remains as relevant today as when it was first published.\" - Kate Culkin, author of \u003ci\u003eEmerson's Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Patricia Dunlavy Valenti's first volume of \u003ci\u003eSophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the critical, cultural, and familial constructions of the wife of one of America's greatest authors, while at the same time challenging our concept of biography itself.\" - Andrea Knutson, associate professor, Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, Oakland University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life,\u003c\/i\u003e Patricia Dunlavy Valenti presents Nathaniel Hawthorne's spouse on her own terms, situating her remarkable life within its own historical, philosophical, and cultural context, and freeing her from notions that Nathaniel constructed and that his biographers perpetuated. The first of this two-volume work recounts Sophia's accomplishments as one of America's first professional women artists, a transcendentalist thinker, and a prolific travel writer. The second volume explores Sophia's abandonment of her artistic career—at Nathaniel's urging—to adopt the roles of wife and mother, widow and impoverished guardian of her husband's legacy, and, finally, expatriate.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551799341336,"sku":"9780807185407","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sophia-peabody-hawthorne-a-life-volume-1-1809-1847-paperback-softback-9780807185407","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}