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Holgrave didn't even have the grace to look ashamed.
Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety] Saintcrow, Lilith 2005
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Clifford and Judge Pyncheon and Holgrave, for more details of them and
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The same purpose accounts for the daguerreotypist Holgrave, who in a rented gable of the old mansion nurses opinions which challenge the authority of the past here lying so heavily upon the present.
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What Phbe has only the instincts of youth and Holgrave argues without activity.
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We have no doubt that Holgrave made a worthy husband for her, and that he occasionally took a hand in public affairs.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Stearns, Frank P 1906
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Judge Pyncheon's duplicity is revealed to Holgrave by the medium of a daguerreotype.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Stearns, Frank P 1906
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In the second picture the stricken judge would be found in a large old-fashioned arm-chair, with Clifford and Hepzibah flying through a doorway to the right, while Phoebe and Holgrave, the one happy and the other startled, enter on the left.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Stearns, Frank P 1906
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Holgrave, the daguerreotypist, who serves as a contrast to the factitious judge, is a genuine character, and may stand for a type of the young New England liberal of 1850: a freethinker, and so much of a transcendentalist that we suspect Hawthorne's model for him to have been one of the younger associates of the Brook Farm experiment.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Stearns, Frank P 1906
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In the story, Holgrave achieves the reward of a veracious nature by winning the heart of the purest and loveliest young woman in American fiction.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Stearns, Frank P 1906
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This is in the form of dialogue; but Hawthorne's own attitude toward reform is clearly disclosed in the analytic passages in which he discusses Holgrave, though it is observable that he embodies no adverse criticism upon it in the character itself, as he was to do in his next novel.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Woodberry, George E 1902
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