Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Our Old Home is a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne's stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool. It was first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly". In his essays Hawthorne aimed to show us the splendors of London, and the horrors of the poverty that so many suffered.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. Our Old Home is a collection of essays, based on Hawthorne's stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool. It was first published in the form of a series of travel papers for "The Atlantic Monthly". In his essays Hawthorne aimed to show us the splendors of London, and the horrors of the poverty that so many suffered.
