Öyküyü Kendi Bakış Açısından Anlatmak: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne’nun Notes in England and Italy (İngiltere ve İtalya’dan Notlar) Adlı Kitabı
Çoğu zaman Nathaniel Hawthorne’un titizlikle çalışan gizli editörü olduğu göz ardı edilse ve yalnızca onun hasta eşi olarak anılsa da, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne kendi sanatsal tutkularını da besledi. O hem yetenekli bir ressam hem de yetenekli bir yazardı. Ailesiyle Avrupa’ya yerleştiğinde titizlikle kaleme aldığı günlüğü ve seyahat notları Notes in England and Italy (İngiltere ve İtalya’dan Notlar) başlığı altında önce bölümler halinde, 1869 yılında da kitap olarak basıldı. Peabody’nin edebi uğraşının İtalya ayağına odaklanacak bu çalışma, onun ülkesi dışındaki, özellikte İtalya Yarımadası’ndaki, deneyimlerinin hem bir kadın (geleneksel kadın ve anne tanımının dışına çıkan) hem de İtalya’daki kadın sanatçılara maddi destek sağlayan bir sanatçı olarak kimliğini ortaya koymasını mümkün kıldığını göstermeye çalışacaktır. Bu çalışmadan da anlaşılacağı gibi, Sophia Peabody’nin Nathaniel Hawthorne’un İtalya’daki geçici ikametinden esinlenen The Marble Faun romanındaki kâtibe Hilda karakteri üzerinden anlatılan öyküsü, yalnızca onun hayatının kendisi tarafından tamamlanması gereken bir kısmını sunmaktadır.
Telling Her Own Side of the Story: Notes in England and Italy by Sophia Peabody Hawthorne Elisabetta Marino
While she is often regarded as merely Nathaniel Hawthorne’sailing wife—ignoring her careful (albeit secret) editing of hispublications—Sophia Peabody Hawthorne nurtured artistic ambitionsof her own. She was both a talented painter and writer. When shemoved to Europe, with her family, she meticulously kept a journal andpenned travel notes, which she later published as installments and thenas a volume (in 1869), under the title Notes in England and Italy.By focusing on the Italian part of her literary endeavor, this papersets out to demonstrate that Sophia’s experience abroad—especiallyin the Peninsula—enabled her to assert her identity as both a woman(beyond the customary depiction of a selfless and dutiful wife andmother) and an artist, capable of expressing her authoritative opinion,while sponsoring other fellow women artists based in Italy. As will beshown, Sophia Peabody’s story narrated by Nathaniel Hawthorne—through the character of Hilda (a copyist) in The Marble Faun (a novelinspired by the same sojourn in Italy)—offers but a partial version ofher life, which needs to be complemented with Sophia’s own words.
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