For his brothers’ entertainment, he wrote essays on the theater, using the pseudonym of Jonathan Oldstyle.

Fiction written by women writers — sometimes called sentimental or domestic fiction — were some of the most popular genres for nineteenth century readers and represent the vast majority of what Americans actually read during the nineteenth century.

In Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” who is Faith?

One reason Edgar Allan Poe was overlooked by his peers was _______________________.

In Hawthorne’s “The Miniser’s Black Veil,” what color is the black veil? 

Washington Irving is considered the first American writer to achieve international fame.

His paternal grandfather participated in the Boston Tea Party.

Thoreau’s essay Civil Disobedience influenced two twentieth century reform leaders. Who were they?

After Hawthorne and his wife Sophia married, they lived in the ancestral (family) home of what writer?

Thoreau referred to Walden Pond and other lakes as