Talk:Nathaniel Hawthorne/Comments

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In the theories section of this biography there is a completely basely paragraph that spectulates that the later work of Nathaniel Hawthorne was written by his wife. It further asserts that it is likely that Franklin Pierce wrote it. No scholar of 19th Century American Literature would except this absurd idea. The University of Ohio has published the complete notebooks of Hawthorne in its Centential Edition. In these notebooks, Hawthorne works out some of the material that became his later work. In particular, his last complete novel, The Marble Faun, has direct correspondence to his notebooks in Italy. We also have the notebooks of his wife during their Italian visit. Its content is very, very different from her husband's. While she was a good artist, she was not a great writer. The idea that President Pierce wrote any of the late masterpieces of Hawthorne is laughable in the scholarly community. Please remove this material. It is seriously misleading to those seeking accurate information. It is also slanderous against the man who Henry James called the greatest American artist. Mihangeljones 10:58, 9 February 2007 (UTC)