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• Hawthorne's 'The Wives of the Dead': Bereavement and the 'Better Part,'

  From: Studies in Short Fiction

  Winter 19832,361 words Critical essay In 1832, the year Hawthorne wrote "Roger Malvin's Burial" and "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," he also wrote a less remembered, but no less exquisite story entitled "The Wives of the Dead." In it Margaret and Mary, the...