Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Hawthorne” in chapter 10, page 183 of James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen:
... though unequal.
She was one of the first to do hearty justice to Hawthorne, of whom she wrote, in 1840, No one of all our imaginative writers has indicated a genius at once so fine and so rich.
Hawthorne was at that time scarcely known, and it is singular to read in her diary, four years earlier, her account
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