![]() To Myself A Stranger: A Biography of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Louisiana State University Press, 1991), Valenti’s first book, focused upon Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s youngest child who became a Roman Catholic, left her husband, and founded an order of nuns devoted to caring for terminal cancer patients. Although her doctoral dissertation in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill focused upon Nathaniel Hawthorne’s fiction, Valenti soon discovered her real interests: the lives of the Hawthorne women. Patricia Dunlavy Valenti grew up in New York City where her education nurtured a love for literature and history that flourishes in writing biography. ![]()
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