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Fanshawe
novel by Hawthorne
Fanshawe, first novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1828 at his own expense. Hawthorne wrote Fanshawe while a student at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Soon after, he deemed the work to be of such derivative and mediocre quality that he attempted, unsuccessfully, to destroy all existing copies. The book’s treatment of plot and character development were derived chiefly from the conventions of Gothic novels and the works of Sir Walter Scott.
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