Nathaniel Hawthorne 
The Old Manse (From ‘Mosses from an Old Manse’) 

‘The Old Manse (From ‘Mosses from an Old Manse’)’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a beloved short story that was written in honor of the Old Manse building in Massachusetts where Hawthorne lived with his wife. This tale, in fact, can be seen as a sort of love story to his early years of marriage and the life he was building with his wife, Sophia Peabody just after their wedding in the 19th century.