Robertson, Ben. Inchbald, Hawthorne and the Romantic Moral Romance: Little Histories and Neutral Territories. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010. Inchbald, Hawthorne and the Romantic Moral Romance is a monograph that examines the major works of Elizabeth Inchbald and Nathaniel Hawthorne, namely A Simple Story, Nature and Art, The Scarlet Letter, and The Marble Faun. The book suggests that while Inchbald attempted to legitimize herself as a woman author, Hawthorne attempted to legitimize himself as an American author. Despite these divergent intentions, Inchbald and Hawthorne ultimately wrote texts that are remarkably similar--enough to suggest a stronger British/American cultural confluence than has heretofore been suggested during the British Romantic and American Romantic periods of literature.