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Northshore October 2025
  Sophia Peabody Hawthorne is popularly known for the loving and supportive relationship she had with her husband, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Sophia and Nathaniel’s love letters, beloved by romantics around the world, attest to an enduring passion between the two. But there is more.  Sophia, one of history’s most celebrated muses, was also one of its most fascinating. Historian Patricia Dunlavy Valenti — also Sophia’s biographer — appears at The House of the Seven Gables to present a highly anticipated lecture on Sophia on Friday, May 18, at 6:30 p.m. Sophia broke with tradition. After her husband&rs
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