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.
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.
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:
Download or read book One Woman s Work written by Sharon Paiva Stephan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover an unexplored dimension of the life of a popular 19th-century gardener, poet, and personality
Download or read book Letters of Celia Thaxter written by Celia Thaxter and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poet on Demand written by Jane E. Vallier and published by Peter E. Randall Publisher. This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last quarter of the nineteenth century Celia Thaxter was the most popular of America's woman poets, surpassing in importance many others whose names are better known today. Yet Celia's fame began to wane even before her death in 1894. Perhaps, as Jane Vallier suggests in this study of Thaxter's life, adverse financial circumstances forced the poet to try her hand as a folklorist, juvenile author, freelance journalist, dramatic actress, naturalist, and illustrator, as well. In this, the first extensive literary biography of Celia Thaxter, author Vallier explains the meaning and symbolism of Thaxter's poetry and describes how Celia's unhappy marriage and her life on the Isles of Shoals, off the coast of New Hampshire, colored her poetry and prose. Included in this reprint of the original 1982 edition is a new introduction with additional photographs, fifty-three of Thaxter's poems plus a reprint of "A Memorable Murder," the story of the killing of two women on Smuttynose Island in 1873 and first published in Atlantic Monthly.
Download or read book Idyls and Pastorals written by Celia Thaxter and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sandpiper written by and published by Peter E. Randall Publisher. This book was released on 1982 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate and authentic view of Celia Thaxter's life and times
Download or read book Breakfast in the Bathtub written by Fred Samuels and published by Peter E. Randall Publisher. This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorous verse and short fiction based on everyday life, in the Erma Bombeck vein. Author of Who Gets the Yellow Bananas, Duncanson is known for her Celia Thaxter and Emily Dickinson programs. Samuels is the author of Intense Experience: Social Psychology Through Poetry, and To Spade the Earth. --Peter E. Randall Publisher.
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.
Download or read book American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century written by Cheryl Walker and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication marks the first time in a hundred years that a wide range of nineteenth-century American women's poetry has been accessible to the general public in a single volume. Included are the humorous parodies of Phoebe Cary and Mary Weston Fordham and the stirring abolitionist poems of Lydia Sigourney, Frances Harper, Maria Lowell, and Rose Terry Cooke. Included, too, are haunting reflections on madness, drug use, and suicide of women whose lives, as Cheryl Walker explains, were often as melodramatic as the poems they composed and published. In addition to works by more than two dozen poets, the anthology includes ample headnotes about each author's life and a brief critical evaluation of her work. Walker's introduction to the volume provides valuable contextual material to help readers understand the cultural background, economic necessities, literary conventions, and personal dynamics that governed women's poetic production in the nineteenth century.
Download or read book Sweet Bells Jangled written by Howard Glyndon and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features poems by Civil War poet Laura Redden Searing.
Download or read book Because I Love You written by Anna E Mack and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because I Love You is a collection of romantic poems by Anna E. Mack. Written in a simple and elegant style, these poems explore the different facets of love, from the joy of falling in love to the pain of heartbreak. Because I Love You is a must-read for anyone who has ever been in love. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Celia Planted a Garden written by Phyllis Root and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an all-star team comes a lyrical picture-book biography about a writer and master gardener who created beauty in a harsh island habitat that was visited by literary and artistic luminaries of her time. Celia Thaxter grew up on a desolate island off the coast of Maine, where her father worked as lighthouse keeper. Amid the white and gray of the sea, the rocks, and even the birds, young Celia found color where she could: green mosses and purple starfish and pink morning glories by the shore. And she planted her first garden, tucking bright marigolds between rocky ledges. When she was twelve, Celia’s family moved to nearby Appledore Island, where her father built a large hotel, and Celia planted a bigger, ever-growing garden with nearly sixty types of flowers, from asters to wisteria. Guests flocked to the hotel from around the world, among them such writers as Longfellow, Whittier, and Hawthorne. Celia had been writing poems about the island, her garden, and the sea, and they would be printed in magazines and books, making her a foremother of writing about nature. Now, for the first time, Celia Planted a Garden showcases her life and work, in a poetic, vividly imagined picture book from a team of two authors and an illustrator, each recipients of numerous awards. More about Celia Thaxter, including a rich time line and bibliography, awaits readers in the back matter.
Download or read book Favorite Poems of Childhood written by Philip Smith and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter," Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat," Eugene Field's "Wynken, Blynken and Nod," Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Swing," many more, all in large, easy-to-read type.
Download or read book The Poems of Celia Thaxter written by Celia Thaxter and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The the World Below the Brine written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century poet Walt Whitman employs the language of his day to express a wonder about the world below the sea that is timeless.
