Hawthorne's Lenox: The Tanglewood Circle

by Cornelia Brooker Gilder and Julia Conklin Peters

What drew Nathaniel Hawthorne to a remote village deep in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts in 1850? Slip into the fascinating social scene he encountered in the drawing rooms and on the croquet lawns of Lenox's country retreats. Here, under the benevolent spell of the Sedgwick family, the separate worlds of high-minded Bostonians and high-powered New Yorkers were stitched together by conversation, recreation and even marriage. Nurturing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159629406X
• ISBN13: 9781596294066
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"