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Learn more"Rappaccini's Daughter" is a Gothic short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in the December 1844. It is about Giacomo Rappaccini, a medical researcher in Padua, Italy, who grows a garden of poisonous plants. He brings up his daughter to tend the plants, and she becomes resistant to the poisons, but in the process she herself becomes poisonous to others.
Nathaniel Hawthorneย (July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer, much of whose writing centered aroundย New England, focusingย on history, morality, and religion.ย His fiction is considered part of theย Romantic movementย and, more specifically,ย dark romanticism.
Sally Mays--writer, vocalist, narrator--lives a life of manic solitude in northern Minnesota, where she tends to her goat farm, pack of Labs, and Cockatiel, Orwell, all while reading audiobooks, cutting radio commercials, and completing the great American novel.