Rappaccini's Daughter
By Nathaniel Hawthorne

Transcription, correction, editorial commentary, and markup by Students and Staff of the University of Virginia, Gretchen Maune

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New York : Wiley and Putnam, 1846"Rappaccini's Daughter" was first published in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review in December 1844. The story was republished in 1846 in Hawthorne's short story collection Mosses from an Old Manse. Our text and page images are taken from the Hathi Trust copy of the first edition, originally digitized as part of the Google Books project.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Rappaccini's Daughter" . Mosses from an Old Manse, Wiley and Putnam, 1846 , 85-118 . Literature in Context: An Open Anthology. http://anthologydev.lib.virginia.edu/work/Hawthorne/hawthorne-rappaccini. Accessed: 2024-12-04T08:22:16.047Z