Nathaniel Hawthorne's Progress as an Author

        The tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne are here listed by date of first publication in whatever form (first edition, last edition revised by Hawthorne).  The second date marks their appearance in one of Hawthorne's book-length short story collections.  He began publishing four years after he graduated from Bowdoin College in 1824.  Before 1837 all pieces were anonymously or pseudonymously published in magazines.  Works with two dates were published in magazines in the first year and in short story collections Hawthorne supervised through the press in the second.  When they were published in magazines, Hawthorne had no control over where editors put them with respect to other articles in the issue.  When Hawthorne published the short story collections, he determined the order in which readers would encounter the stories.  Stories we are reading for the Hawthorne Project are in boldface for easy identificaiton.

        Title                                                                        <NH's age>  [total pub. stories that year] events/novels

      Fanshawe: A Tale (anonymous, 1828)                  <24> [1--NH attempted to destroy all copies of this college novel]


     "The Hollow of the Three Hills" (1830, 1837)             <26>            [4]

     "Sir William Phips" (1830)

     "Mrs. Hutchinson" (1830)

     "An Old Woman's Tale" (1830)


     "Dr. Bullivant" (1831)                                                     <27>            [3]

     "Sights from a Steeple" (1831, 1837)

     "The Haunted Quack" (1831)


     "The Wives of the Dead" (1832, 1852)                         <28>            [4}

     "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (1832, 1852)

     "Roger Malvin's Burial" (1832, 1846)

     "The Gentle Boy" (1832, 1837)


     "The Seven Vagabonds" (1833, 1842)                         <29>            [4]

     "The Canterbury Pilgrims" (1833, 1852)

     "Sir William Pepperell" (1833)

     "Graves and Goblins" (?) (?authorship and publication date uncertain)


     "Passages from a Relinquished Work" (1834, 1854)     <30>            [2]

     "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe" (1834, 1837)


     "The Haunted Mind" (1835, 1842)                                     <31>            [17]

     "Alice Doane's Appeal" (1835)

     "The Mermaid (The Village Uncle)" (1835, 1842)

     "Little Annie's Ramble" (1835, 1837)

     "The Gray Champion" (1835, 1837)

     "My Visit to Niagara" (1835)

     "Old News" (1835, 1852)

          "Old News - II. The Old French War"

          "Old News - III. The Old Tory"

     "Young Goodman Brown" (1835, 1846)

     "Wakefield" (1835, 1837)

     "The Ambitious Guest" (1835, 1842)

     "A Rill from the Town-Pump" (1835, 1837)

     "The White Old Maid" (1835, 1842)

     "The Vision of the Fountain" (1835, 1837)

     "The Devil in Manuscript" (1835, 1852)

     "Sketches from Memory" (1835, 1854)


     "The Wedding-Knell" (1836, 1837)                                     <32>        [6]

     "An Ontario Steamboat" (1836)

     "The May-Pole of Merry Mount" (1836, 1837)

     "The Minister's Black Veil" (1836, 1837)

     "Old Ticonderoga" (1836, 1852)

     "A Visit to the Clerk of the Weather" (1836)


     "Monsieur du Miroir" (1837, 1846)                                     <33>        [13]

     "Mrs. Bullfrog" (1837, 1846)

     "Sunday at Home" (1837)

     "The Man of Adamant" (1837, 1852)

     "David Swan" (1837)

     "The Great Carbuncle" (1837)

     "Fancy's Show Box" (1837)

     "The Prophetic Pictures" (1837)

     "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" (1837)

     "A Bell's Biography" (1837, 1852)

     "Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man" (1837)

     "Edward Fane's Rosebud" (1837, 1842)

     "The Toll-Gatherer's Day" (1837, 1842)

    Twice-Told Tales (1st ed. in 1837, rpt. 1842, 1851, 1852; his first hard-bound edition of popular short stories)


     "Sylph Etherege" (1838, 1852)                                             <34>        [15]

     "Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure" (1838, 1842)

     "Endicott and the Red Cross" (1838, 1842)

     "Night Sketches" (1838, 1842)

     "The Shaker Bridal" (1838, 1842)

     "Foot-prints on the Sea-shore" (1838, 1842)

     "Thomas Green Fessenden" (1838)

     "Time's Portraiture" (1838)

     "Snow-Flakes" (1838, 1842)

     "The Threefold Destiny" (1838, 1842)

     "Jonathan Cilley" (1838)

     "Chippings with a Chisel" (1838, 1842)

     "Legends of the Province House"

          I. "Howe's Masquerade" (1838, 1842)

          II. "Edward Randolph's Portrait" (1838, 1842)

          III. "Lady Eleanore's Mantle" (1838, 1842)


          IV. "Old Esther Dudley" (1839, 1842)                     <35>  [3]  Working at the Boston Customs House

     "The Sister Years" (1839, 1842)

     "The Lily's Quest" (1839, 1842)


     "John Inglefield's Thanksgiving" (1840, 1852)            <36>  [1]  Working at Boston Customs House


      {FIRST YEAR WITH NO PUBLICATIONS (1841)  <37>  [0]  Lived at Brook Farm commune 6 months


     "A Virtuoso's Collection" (1842, 1846)                       <38>  [1]  Married Sophia Peabody, 7/12/1842


     "The Old Apple-Dealer" (1843, 1846)                         <39>  [11]

     "The Antique Ring" (1843)

     "The Hall of Fantasy" (1843, 1846)

     "The New Adam and Eve" (1843, 1846)

     "The Birth-mark" (1843, 1846)

     "Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" (1843, 1846)

     "The Procession of Life" (1843, 1846)

     "The Celestial Rail-road" (1843, 1846)

     "Buds and Bird-Voices" (1843, 1846)

     "Little Daffydowndilly" (1843, 1852)

     "Fire-Worship" (1843, 1846)


     "The Christmas Banquet" (1844, 1846)                    <40>        [9]  Daughter, "Una," born

     "A Good Man's Miracle" (1844)

     "The Intelligence Office" (1844, 1846)

     "Earth's Holocaust" (1844, 1846)

     "The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844, 1846)

     "Drowne's Wooden Image" (1844, 1846)

     "A Select Party" (1844, 1846)

     "A Book of Autographs" (1844)

     "Rappaccini's Daughter" (1844, 1846)


     "P.'s Correspondence' (1845, 1846)                             <41>        [1]


     "The Old Manse" (1846)                                                    <42>        [1]  Son, Julian, born

    Mosses from the Old Manse, Parts One and Two (1846)        (Contains "Rappaccini's Daughter")


     {TWO YEARS WITHOUT PUBLICATION--1847-48}    <43-44>    [0]


     "Main-street" (1849, 1852)                                                 <45>        [1]


     "Ethan Brand" (1850, 1852)                                                <46>        [3]                       

     "The Great Stone Face" (1850, 1852)

     "The Snow-Image" (1850, 1852)      

     The Scarlet Letter (1850)


    {ONE YEAR WITHOUT  SHORT STORY PUBLICATION--1851} <47> [0]  Daughter, Rose, born

    The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

    The Snow-Image and Other Twice-Told Tales (1851)        (Contains "My Kinsman, Major Molineux")


     "Feathertop" (1852, 1854)                                                  <48>  [1]                       

    Blithedale Romance  (1852)

     A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1852)


     Tanglewood Tales (1853)                                                 <49>  [0]  Living in Liverpool, England, as American consul (1853-57)


    No known publications 1854-59--spent 1858-9 in Italy, inspiration for The Marble Faun (1860)  <50-55>


      "Brown's Folly" [for Essex Institute] (1860)     <56>

      The Marble Faun  (1860) 


    Our Old Home (1863)        <59>