Julian Hawthorne was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody.
32 Facts About Julian Hawthorne
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Julian Hawthorne wrote numerous poems, novels, short stories, mysteries and detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies, and histories.
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Julian Hawthorne was the second child of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne.
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Julian Hawthorne was born June 22,1846, at 14 Mall Street in Salem, Massachusetts.
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Julian Hawthorne has dark hair and is no great beauty at present, but is said to be a particularly fine little urchin by everybody who has seen him.
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Julian Hawthorne's parents had difficulty choosing a name for eight months.
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Julian Hawthorne's father referred to him for some time as "Bundlebreech" or "Black Prince", due to his dark curls and red cheeks.
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Julian Hawthorne's father used Julian as an inspiration for the character of Sweet Fern in his children's books A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys and Tanglewood Tales.
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Julian Hawthorne's parents disapproved particularly of dances hosted by the school.
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Julian Hawthorne later spread the rumor that he inspired the character Laurie in Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel Little Women, which she denied.
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Julian Hawthorne entered Harvard College in 1863, but did not graduate.
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Julian Hawthorne was tutored privately in German by James Russell Lowell, a professor and writer who encouraged Nathaniel Hawthorne's work.
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Julian Hawthorne took over his father's study in the tower of The Wayside and, his mother recalled, the difficult time "made a man of him, for he feels all the care of me and his sisters".
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Julian Hawthorne prepared an edition of his father's unfinished work Dr Grimshawe's Secret.
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Julian Hawthorne's sister Rose, upon hearing of the book's announcement, had not known about the fragment and originally thought her brother was guilty of forgery or a hoax.
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Julian Hawthorne defended himself from the charge and eventually dedicated the book to his sister and her husband George Parsons Lathrop.
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In July 1883, Julian Hawthorne was invited to participate as a lecturer at the Concord School of Philosophy by his former neighbors Amos Bronson Alcott and Sanborn.
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Julian Hawthorne presented a version of a paper he had recently published, "Agnosticism in American Fiction", which criticized the emerging American Realism movement and took aim particularly at William Dean Howells and Henry James, whose works Julian Hawthorne believed represented "life and humanity not in their loftier, but in their lesser manifestations".
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Julian Hawthorne returned the following summer to present "Emerson as an American".
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The younger Julian Hawthorne wrote a critique of his father's novel The Scarlet Letter that was published in The Atlantic Monthly in April 1886.
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Julian Hawthorne published an article in the October 24,1886, issue of the New York World based on a long interview with James Russell Lowell, who had recently served as a US diplomat to England.
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Between 1887 and 1888, Julian Hawthorne published a series of detective fiction novels following the character Inspector Barnes, including The Great Bank Robbery, An American Penman, A Tragic Mystery, Section 558, and Another's Crime.
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In 1889 there were reports that Julian Hawthorne was one of several writers who had, under the name of "Arthur Richmond", published in the North American Review devastating attacks on President Grover Cleveland and other leading Americans.
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Julian Hawthorne published a second book about his father, Julian Hawthorne and His Circle, in 1903.
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Julian Hawthorne dismissed this, claiming Melville was inclined to think so only because "there were many secrets untold in his own career", causing much speculation.
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In 1908, Hawthorne's old Harvard friend William J Morton invited Hawthorne to join in promoting some newly created mining companies in Ontario, Canada.
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Julian Hawthorne made his writing and his family name central to the stock-selling campaigns.
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Julian Hawthorne was able to sell some three and a half million shares of stock in a nonexistent silver mine and served one year in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
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Julian Hawthorne argued, based on his own experience, that incarceration was inhumane and should be replaced by moral suasion.
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Julian Hawthorne shared a home with his lover Edith Garrigues.
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Julian Hawthorne suffered two heart attacks before dying on July 14,1934.
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Julian Hawthorne's funeral was private and, after his body was cremated, his ashes were scattered along Newport Beach, California.