House of the Seven Gables, The
About the Story
Short story writer and novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) published The House of the Seven Gables in 1851 following the success of The Scarlet Letter just one year earlier. Hawthorne drew upon the history of his Puritan ancestors for the novel, particularly his great-great-grandfather, John Hawthorne, who was one of the judges at the 1692 Salem witch trials. In the novel, Matthew Maule’s curse is taken from accused Salem witch Sarah Good who cursed a minister with the words, “God will give you blood to drink.”
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