Nursery Rhymes of England
Nursery Rhymes of England
Written by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillips
Boston, Monroe and Francis, 1842
Wilson Library, University of Minnesota
The Hawthornes had two children, Una, aged 6, and Julian, aged 4, at the time of The Scarlet Letter's publication. Doting, indulgent parents, they roundly rejected the fire-and-brimstone theology of The New-England Primer and took pleasure in reading to their children from the growing body of imaginative juvenile literature then available—stories such as the Grimms' "Hop-o'-My Thumb" and Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen."