{"product_id":"sophia-peabody-hawthorne-a-life-volume-2-1848-1871-paperback-softback-9780807185391","title":"Sophia Peabody Hawthorne; A Life, Volume 2, 1848–1871 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780807185391","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 2, 1848–1871\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\"\u003e9780807185391\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\"\u003e364 pages, 17 Halftones, unspecified\u003cbr\u003e2.1 x 22.9 x 15.2 cm, 0.542 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\"The second volume of Patricia Dunlavy Valenti's elegantly written \u003ci\u003eSophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e gives a fresh—often startling, always compelling—view of the endlessly fascinating mother, wife, artist, and political creature.\" - Diane Jacobs, author of \u003ci\u003eDear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is an engaging and meticulously researched biography of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, focused on the second half of her life. Sophia's relations with her husband, her children, and other significant people in their lives are thoroughly examined through the use of letters, journals, and other archival materials. Valenti provides astute accounts of Sophia's contributions to her husband's works, and she fills in key background details about the contexts in which they were written and published.\" - Larry J. Reynolds, author of \u003ci\u003eDevils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\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":52551799275800,"sku":"9780807185391","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sophia-peabody-hawthorne-a-life-volume-2-1848-1871-paperback-softback-9780807185391","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}