BBC: US literary couple unite in death
Submitted by Robert Daeley on Tue, 2006-06-27 08:27.
US literary couple unite in death
I’ll admit it, I got misty eyed. :)
The remains of the wife of 19th Century US writer Nathaniel Hawthorne have been reburied next to those of the author, after more than a century apart.
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne left the US with her children after her husband’s death in 1864. She went to England, where she died six years later.
Her remains and those of daughter Una were exhumed from a London cemetery, after their plot fell into disrepair….
Last winter, a hawthorn tree fell onto the already damaged graves and the order decided to have the remains reburied in the family plot in Concord in Massachussetts….
Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of our greatest American writers of the Romantic era, an interesting fellow outside of writings, and with an intriguing family… not to mention a great friend of Herman Melville.