page_title: Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent
section_title: Composition and publication history
hierarchical_section_title: Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent / Composition and publication history
caption_attribution_description: English: Bust-length portrait of man in charcoal with chalk highlights in gold oval frame In October 1846, Henry Longfellow recorded in his journal: "[Johnson] is to take for me all the club. The mutual Admiration Society which I shall hang in the Hall to show people what a fine set of heads they are." This group of portraits - of Charles Sumner, Cornelius Conway Felton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne - all hang in Longfellow's study. Keywords: art; drawing; portrait; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Eastman Johnson; LONG 542
context_page_description: "Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
context_section_description: In the 1840s, Hawthorne was planning a project of interrelated stories to be collected under the banner Allegories of the Heart; instead, several of those stories were published in the Democratic Review, including "Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" in the March 1843 issue. It was republished in The Pathfinder that same month and later appeared in Mosses from an Old Manse, a collection of short stories by Hawthorne published in 1846. Another tale, "The Christmas Banquet", is a sequel related through by the Roderick character; both stories also carried a subtitle indicating they were part of the unpublished Allegories of the Heart.
caption: Hawthorne in 1846
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