Celia Thaxter (1835–1894)
Autor von An Island Garden
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Bildnachweis: Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Werke von Celia Thaxter
Drift-weed 3 Exemplare
Driftweed 2 Exemplare
A Memorable Murder 1 Exemplar
Poems for children 1 Exemplar
Strange Tales of the High Seas 1 Exemplar
Poems 1 Exemplar
Stories by American Authors III - IV 1 Exemplar
Celia Thaxter: References to Birds 1 Exemplar
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Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
Grande Dames of Detection: Two Centuries of Sleuthing Stories by the Gentle Sex (1973) — Mitwirkender — 32 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Thaxter, Celia
- Geburtstag
- 1835-06-29
- Todestag
- 1894-08-25
- Begräbnisort
- Laighton Family Cemetery, Kittery, Maine, USA
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Portsmouth, Maine, USA
- Sterbeort
- Appledore Island, Maine, USA
- Wohnorte
- Appledore Island, Maine, USA
Newbury, Massachusetts
Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
White Island, New Hampshire, USA - Berufe
- poet
short story writer
gardener - Kurzbiographie
- Celia Thaxter, née Laighton, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and grew up in the Isles of Shoals, 10 miles off the mainland, where her father Thomas Laighton was a lighthouse keeper and later a hotel owner. At age 16, she married Levi Thaxter, her father's business partner, 11 years her senior, and moved with him to Massachusetts. They had three sons. Celia's first poem, "Land-Locked," published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1861, was an instant success and made her the darling of literary Boston. She went back to live on Appledore Island (Maine) and became the hostess of her father's resort hotel, the Appledore House. She helped to attract many New England literary and artistic figures to the hotel and her salon there, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf Whittier, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Childe Hassam, who painted several pictures of her. She became one of America's leading writers of the late 19th century, beloved as a poet of nature and the sea. Among her best-known poems was "The Sandpiper." In 1894, she published the prose work, An Island Garden, with color illustrations by Hassam, which became her most popular book. A fire later destroyed the hotel, but her garden was reconstructed in 1977 by John M. Kingsbury, founder and first director of the Shoals Marine Laboratory. A documentary film, Celia Thaxter's Island Garden, was shown at the 2014 New Hampshire Film Festival.
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