Hawthorne married Sophia Peabody in 1842, who bore a son and two daughters. Finally a publisher was willing to issue Twice-Told Tales in 1837 under his signature. "Young Goodman Brown," for example, first appeared in The New-England Magazine in 1835. After another abortive attempt to publish a frame narrative, The Story Teller, which included the tale "Young Goodman Brown," he published anonymously in literary annuals and periodicals. Between 1825-37 he wrote several works, including the historical novel Fanshawe and the story collection Seven Tales of My Native Land, for which he was unable to find a publisher and whose texts he eventually destroyed. Hawthorne’s literary career illustrates the difficulties early nineteenth century American authors faced in earning a living by imaginative writing. At Bowdoin College, Maine, he joined the college Democratic literary society and met Franklin Pierce and other lifelong friends. Life: One of Hawthorne’s ancestors was a judge in Salem witchcraft trials his sea captain father died when he was 4 he spent time as an adolescent in hiking and reading eighteenth century writers, such as Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole (author of the Gothic horror story The Castle of Otranto), William Godwin (author of Caleb Williams, story of a man at first haunted by false accusations, who later turns to oppressing others) and the contemporary Walter Scott, historical novelist who authored The Waverley Novels.
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