FANSHAWE AND OTHER PIECES

By Nathaniel Hawthorne


BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES




CONTENTS:
Mrs. Hutchinson
Sir William Phips
Sir William Pepperell
Thomas Green Fessenden
Jonathan Cilley



MRS. HUTCHINSON.

The character of this female suggests a train of thought which will form
as natural an Introduction to her story, as most of the Prefaces to
Gay's Fables, or the tales of Prior; besides that, the general soundness
of the moral may excuse any want of present applicability. We will not
look for a living resemblance of Mrs. Hutchinson, though the search
might not be altogether fruitless. But there are portentous
indications, changes gradually taking place in the habits and feelings
of the gentle sex, which seem to threaten our posterity with many of
those public women, whereof one was a burden too grievous for our