1. Sophia Amelia Hawthorne was an American painter and illustrator as well as the wife of author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
21 Facts About Sophia Hawthorne
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Sophia Hawthorne had three brothers; her sisters were Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, later Horace Mann's wife.
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Sophia Hawthorne's health had been questionable since infancy, and she was an occasional invalid.
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When doctors pronounced Sophia Hawthorne had no discernible illness, she sought the "rest therapy".
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Sophia Hawthorne left for Cuba on December 4,1833, with her sister Mary.
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Sophia Hawthorne had originally objected to marriage, partly because of her health.
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Nath Sophia Hawthorne This is his study The smallest twig leans clear against the sky Composed by my wife and written with her diamond Inscribed by my husband at sunset, April 3,1843.
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Sophia Hawthorne had a recurrence of her migraines after Una's birth.
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Sophia Hawthorne's father wrote of the news to a sister, "A small troglodyte made his appearance here at ten minutes to six o'clock this morning, who claims to be your nephew".
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The family moved to Lenox, Massachusetts, and it was there, in a red farmhouse they rented, that Sophia Hawthorne gave birth to her third child, Rose.
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Two months prior to giving birth, Sophia Hawthorne claimed she instinctively knew it would be a girl and chose the name Rose.
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Sophia Hawthorne was born on May 20,1851, about a month after the publication of The House of the Seven Gables.
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Sophia Hawthorne went into labor early, before the midwife could arrive; Rose was delivered with the help of Sophia Hawthorne's father.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne died in May 1864, and Sophia was given the news by her sister, Elizabeth Peabody, who had been informed by Franklin Pierce.
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Pierce, a close friend of Sophia Hawthorne, had been at the author's side when he died in his sleep.
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Sophia Hawthorne became ill in February 1871, diagnosed with "typhoid pneumonia".
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Julian Sophia Hawthorne went on to be a moderately successful author writing about his father and other miscellaneous works.
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Sophia Hawthorne's art began to evolve steadily after studying drawing in 1824; she further explored this discipline under the tutelage of Francis Graeter, the illustrator of Lydia Maria Child's Girl's Own Book.
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Sophia Hawthorne briefly studied sculpture with Shobal Vail Clevenger and produced a bas-relief medallion portrait of her dying brother George Peabody and, shortly thereafter, a similar work of Ralph Waldo Emerson's dead brother Charles.
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Sophia Hawthorne answered, "Sophia Hawthorne will never look otherwise to me".
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When Nathaniel moved to Boston, Sophia Hawthorne painted two landscapes to decorate his apartment.