We have dealt thus long on the old parsonage because it was a silent influence, every day fashioning the sensitive, imaginative little soul that was growing up in its own sphere of loneliness there.... [E]very day, as the little maiden grew, some quaint, original touch was put in the forming character by these sur- roundings (Stowe, 1878:178-179).
Notwithstanding all we have done to modemize the old house, we seem scarcely to have disturbed its air of antiquity.... There are dark closets, and strange nooks and corners, where the ghosts of former occupants might hide themselves in the day time, and stalkforth, when night conceals all our sacrile gious improvements (in Stewart, 1932:150).
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Kraft, Stephanie1979No Castles on Main Street: American Authors and Their HomesChicago: Rand McNally and Company.
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Stewart, Randall, ed. 1932The American Notebooks by Nathaniel Hawthorne.New Haven: Yale University Press.
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher1878Poganuc PeopleNew York: Fords, Howard and Hulbert.
