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Book Among the Isles of Shoals

Download or read book Among the Isles of Shoals written by Celia Thaxter and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Island Garden

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  • Author : Celia Thaxter
  • Publisher : Applewood Books
  • Release : 2008-11
  • ISBN : 1429014296
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book An Island Garden written by Celia Thaxter and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894) was born in Portsmouth, NH. When she was four, her father became the lighthouse keeper on White Island in the Isles of Shoals. After resigning his post eight years later, he built a resort hotel on Appledore Island in Maine. The first of its kind on the New England coast, the hotel became a gathering place for writers and artists during the latter half of the 19th century. In her last year of life, Celia published this work, in which she lovingly describes her Appledore garden and its flowers. The flowers she grew in her cutting garden filled her own rooms and those of the hotel, and this work became famous for its descriptions of the old-fashioned flowers she grew there. Her island garden, a plot that measured 15 feet square, has been re-created and is open to visitors.

Book Among the Isles of Shoals

Download or read book Among the Isles of Shoals written by Celia Thaxter and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Impressionist

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  • Author : Austen Barron Bailly
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2016-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300217315
  • Pages : 125 pages

Download or read book American Impressionist written by Austen Barron Bailly and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals traces Hassam's artistic exploration of Appledore Island, the largest island of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, where he traveled nearly every summer for thirty years"--

Book Among the Isles of Shoals

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  • Author : Celia Thaxter
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-07-15
  • ISBN : 336818394X
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Among the Isles of Shoals written by Celia Thaxter and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Book This Desired Place

Download or read book This Desired Place written by Julia Older and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Among the Isles of Shoals  by Celia Thaxter

Download or read book Among the Isles of Shoals by Celia Thaxter written by Celia Thaxter and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Weight of Water

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  • Author : Anita Shreve
  • Publisher : Little Brown
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 0316789976
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book The Weight of Water written by Anita Shreve and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of marital intrigue. The protagonist is a woman photographer sent to investigate an old murder on an island. She takes along her husband, the husband's brother and the brother's girlfriend. Problems arise when the husband develops an interest in the other woman. By the author of Resistance.

Book Among the Isles of Shoals

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  • Author : Celia Thaxter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9780243721177
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Among the Isles of Shoals written by Celia Thaxter and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Among the Isles of Shoals

Download or read book Among the Isles of Shoals written by Celia Thaxter and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Celia s Island Journal

Download or read book Celia s Island Journal written by Loretta Krupinski and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated journal of a small child from the nineteenth century describes the colors, sounds, and textures of her home on the Isles of Shoals.

Book A Memorable Murder

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  • Author : John Schlarbaum
  • Publisher : eBookIt.com
  • Release : 2015-07-08
  • ISBN : 1456605488
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book A Memorable Murder written by John Schlarbaum and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Memorable Murder A Jennifer Malone Mystery Payback's a bitch . . . in a blue and white dress On a cool October morning, viewers are transfixed to their televisions for details of a gangland-style murder carried out during the live broadcast of The Nation Today. Upon identifying the dead man as Robert Barker, CEO of the country's largest pharmaceutical company, the police quickly discover clues indicating the killer is none other than his wife, Lynn. While authorities attempt to locate Mrs. Barker, intrepid newspaper reporter Jennifer Malone uncovers information the shooting is possibly related to a new memory wonder drug. Yet the harder she digs, the more twists and turns she unearths. Had Robert found out about Lynn's affair with the presidential candidate - a show guest that fateful morning? Or was it business related, as the candidate is the powerful Chairman of the Health and Welfare Committee that oversees the drug industry? A Memorable Murder is a story of greed, revenge, political cover-up, and a country's insatiable appetite for tabloid-worthy news stories. It is also a novel you won't soon forget.

Book Among the Isles of Shoals  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Among the Isles of Shoals Classic Reprint written by Celia Thaxter and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Among the Isles of Shoals It is with reluctance that I suffer these fragmentary and inadequate sketches of the Isles of Shoals to appear in book form. Except that some account of the place, however slight, is so incessantly called for by people who throng these islands in summer, I should hardly venture to offer to the public so imperfect a chronicle, of which the most that can be said is, that it is, perhaps, better than nothing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Poetry of Celia Thaxter   Volume I

Download or read book The Poetry of Celia Thaxter Volume I written by Celia Thaxter and published by Portable Poetry. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celia Laighton Thaxter was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on June 29th, 1835 and spent her childhood years on the Isles of Shoals, initially on White Island, where her father, Thomas Laighton, was a lighthouse keeper, and then the wonderfully named Smuttynose and Appledore Islands. At sixteen, she married Levi Thaxter, her father's business partner, and moved to the mainland, residing first in Watertown, Massachusetts, at a property his father owned. In 1854, they moved to a house in Newburyport and later, in 1856, acquired their own home near the Charles River at Newtonville. Celia had two sons, one of whom was Roland, born August 28, 1858, and would become a prominent mycologist who would later teach at Harvard. Her first published poem was written during this time on the mainland. That poem, "Land-Locked," was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1861 and earned her $10. It was to be the beginning of a career that would make her one of America's most popular poets and short story writers. Her marriage with Levi was not perfect, tensions gradually increased. After 10 years she moved back to the islands and her beloved Appledore Island. The marriage was not over but the separations grew longer as Levi didn't share his wife's love of island life. Celia became the hostess of her father's hotel, the Appledore House, and many New England literary and artists stayed thee; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry David Thoreau, John Greenleaf Whittier, Sarah Orne Jewett, and the artists William Morris Hunt, Childe Hassam, who painted several pictures of her and watercolorist Ellen Robbins, who painted the flowers in her garden. Celia was present at the time of the infamous murders on Smuttynose Island, about which she wrote the essay, A Memorable Murder which we have included at the end of this volume of poetry. William Morris Hunt, a close family friend, trying to recover from a debilitating depression, drowned in late summer 1879, an apparent suicide, three days after finishing his last sketch. Celia bore the horror of discovering the body. That same year, the Thaxters' bought 186 acres on Seapoint Beach on Cutts Island, Kittery Point, where they built a grand Shingle Style "cottage" called Champernowne Farm. In 1880, they auctioned the Newtonville house, and in 1881, moved to their new home. In March 1888, her friend and fellow poet Whittier hoped "on that lonesome, windy coast where she can only look upon the desolate, winter-bitten pasture-land and the cold grey sea" she could be comforted by "memories of her Italian travels." Among Celia's most remembered and best loved poems are "The Burgomaster Gull," "Landlocked," "Milking," "The Great White Owl," "The Kingfisher," and "The Sandpiper." Celia Thaxter died suddenly on August 25th, 1894 on Appledore Island and is buried not far from her cottage, which later burned down in the 1914 fire that consumed The Appledore House hotel.

Book Tides

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  • Author : Betsy Cornwell
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 054792772X
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Tides written by Betsy Cornwell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on the Isles of Shoals, remote islands off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, this page-turning YA debut weaves the Celtic ocean lore of selkies and a compelling mystery into a story about family secrets and love.

Book The Isles of Shoals in Lore and Legend

Download or read book The Isles of Shoals in Lore and Legend written by Lyman V. Rutledge and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Among the Isles of Shoals

Download or read book Among the Isles of Shoals written by Celia Thaxter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-11 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nine miles of the Atlantic Ocean intervene between these islands and the nearest point of the coast of New Hampshire; but from this nearest point the coast-line recedes gradually, in dim and dimmer distance, to Cape Ann, in Massachusetts; twenty-one miles away at the southwest, and to Cape Neddock, in Maine, sixteen miles distant in the northeast (in clear weather another cape is faintly distinguishable beyond this), and about one third of the great horizon is filled by this beautiful, undulating line of land, which, under the touch of atmospheric change, is almost as plastic as the clouds, and wears a new aspect with every turn of wind and weather."