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Hildegarde Hawthorne
American poet
Hildegarde Hawthorne | |
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Hildegarde Hawthorne and her father Julian Hawthorne, from a 1907 publication. | |
| Born | September 25, 1871 New York, United States |
| Died | December 10, 1952 Danbury, Connecticut, United States |
| Other names | Hildegarde Oskison |
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| Parent(s) | Julian Hawthorne Minnie Amelung |
Hildegarde Hawthorne (September 25, 1871 – December 10, 1952) was an American writer of supernatural and ghost stories, a poet and biographer.
Family
Born on September 25, 1871, in New York City, Hildegarde Hawthorne was the granddaughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) and eldest child of Julian Hawthorne (1846–1934) and Minnie Amelung Hawthorne.[1][2] She lived in Germany, England, and Jamaica as a child.[3]
Career
At age sixteen Hildegarde began selling articles to the children's magazine St.
Nicholas. Her supernatural short story "Perdita," was published in th