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Fanshawe (novel)
''Fanshawe'' is a novel written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was his first published work, which he published anonymously in 1828.
==Background==
Hawthorne was working on a novel as early as his period as an undergraduate at Bowdoin College. ''Fanshawe'', his first published novel, may or may not have been that book.〔Mellow, James R. ''Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980: 41. ISBN 0-395-27602-0〕 ''Fanshawe: A Tale'' appeared anonymously in October 1828 from the Boston publishers Marsh and Capen. Its printing was paid for at the author's own expense, costing him $100.〔Mellow, James R. ''Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980: 41–42. ISBN 0-395-27602-0〕 The book was based on Hawthorne's experiences as a Bowdoin College student in the early 1820s.
''Fanshawe'' generally received positive reviews. Sarah Josepha Hale, then editor of the ''Ladies' Magazine'', advised potential readers buy the book rather than rely on finding it at a circulating library.〔Okker, Patricia. ''Our Sister Editors: Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Women Editors''. Atlanta: University of Georgia Press, 1995: 89. ISBN 0-8203-1686-5〕 As she wrote, "Purchase it, reader. There is but one volume, and trust me that it is worth placing in your library."〔Mellow, James R. ''Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980: 43. ISBN 0-395-27602-0〕 William Leggett saw further potential in the young author: "The mind that produced this little, interesting volume, is capable of making great and rich additions to our native literature."〔
The book, however, did not sell well. After its commercial failure, Hawthorne burned the unsold copies: "Later all the copies that could be obtained were destroyed. A dozen years after his death a copy was found and the tale reissued by James o & co." (quote cf. N.E. Brown, Bibl. of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Boston and New York, 1905) The novel was so rare and Hawthorne was so secretive about his early attempt at a novel that after his death his wife Sophia insisted her husband had never written a novel with that title, despite being shown a copy.〔Nelson, Randy F. ''The Almanac of American Letters''. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 73. ISBN 0-86576-008-X〕
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