Nathaniel Hawthorne – visited Lichfield

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Did you know that Nathaniel Hawthorne – the great American Novelist – visited Lichfield. 

Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804 - 1864,  was an American novelist and short story writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts as Nathaniel Hathorne (no w). He later changed his name to Hawthorne (with a w) to distance himself from from relatives including John Hathorne, who was a judge during the Salem Witch Trials.

It is said he visited Lichfied in 1855 and he wrote about seeing a group of newly recruited soldiers looking “as if they had had a little too much ale.”!

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