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The House of the Seven Gables (also known as the Turner House or Turner-Ingersoll Mansion) is a 1668 colonial mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, named for its gables. It was made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1851 novel The House of the Seven Gables.
The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 1851
May 19, 2011 · The House of the Seven Gables, romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1851. The work, set in mid-19th-century Salem, Mass., is a sombre study in hereditary sin, based on the legend of a curse pronounced on Hawthorne’s own family by a woman condemned to death during the infamous Salem witch.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 2, 2014 · Author Nathaniel Hawthorne is best known for his novels 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'The House of Seven Gables,' and also wrote many short stories.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a descendant of prominent Puritan founders of Salem, Massachusetts—a setting and history he drew on prominently in his writings.
Our American story starts in 1668, when Salem sea captain and merchant John Turner I and his wife Elizabeth built The House of the Seven Gables. Three generations of the Turner family lived in the seaside mansion before it was sold to Captain Samuel Ingersoll in 1782.
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Oct 29, 2023 · In Hawthorne's time, the real house of Hawthorne's novel was owned by Nathaniel's cousin, Susanna Ingersoll. The colonial mansion was originally built in 1667 by Capt. John Turner, a prosperous sea trader who worked out of Salem. Over the next 50 years, the house was added on to several times.
