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1628
Maypole at Mount Wollaston (Mass)

    

1634
John Endecott defaces King's colors

   
    
   

1637
Thomas Morton, "New English Canaan"

    

1830 - 1870
Domestic fiction dominates literary market

   
    
   

1831
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux"

    

1836
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Maypole at Merrymount"

   
    
   

1837
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Twice-Told Tales"

1837
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Endicott and the Red Cross"

   
    
   

1846
Hawthorne, "Roger Malvyn's Burial" in Mosses From An Old Manse

    

1850
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter"

   
   

1850
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Great Stone Face"

    

1851
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The House of the Seven Gables"

   
    
   

1853
Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes a campaign biography for his former Bowdoin classmate Franklin Pierce and is rewarded with a consulship in England.

    

1862
Hawthorne published "Chiefly About War Matters" in The Atlantic Monthly

   
    
   

1904
Henry James visits the supposed House of the Seven Gables.


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