CELIA See also:

• CELIA THAXTER (1836—1894)

THAXTER (1836—1894)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• PORTSMOUTH
• PORTSMOUTH, EARLS OF
• PORTSMOUTH, LOUISE DE

Portsmouth, New See also:

• HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

Hampshire, on the 29th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1836 . Her See also:

• FATHER

father, See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas B . Laighton, became offended with some of his associates in See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state politics, and retired about 1841 to the barren and isolated Isles of Shoals, ten See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles off Portsmouth, where for about ten years he was keeper of the See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

White See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island lighthouse; and his daughter's girlhood was therefore spent in marine surroundings, which coloured the best of the See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse she after-wards wrote . Her poems, mainly in lyrical See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, See also:

• DEAL

deal with the See also:

• BEACON (from the O. Eng. beacn, a sign, cf. " beckon," another form of the same word)

beacon-See also:

• LIGHT

light, the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-See also:

• STORM (in O. Eng..storm, and so in Du. and Low Ger.; in O. H. Ger. and mod. Ger. Sturm; the root is probably that seen in " stir," to rouse, move, disturb, cf. Ger. storen)
• STORM, THEODOR WOLDSEN (1817-1888)

storm, the glint of sails, the See also:

• SAND
• SAND, GEORGE (1804-1876)

sand-See also:

• PIPER, CARL, COUNT (1647-1716)

piper, the See also:

• FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
• FLOWER, SIB

flower among the rocks, &c., in characteristic and sympathetic fidelity . She also wrote See also:

• PROSE

prose sketches of See also:

• LIFE

life and scenery, Among the Isles of Shoals (1873); stories and poems for See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, and letters; besides a See also:

• BOOK

book about floriculture, An Island See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden (1894) . In 1896 appeared a See also:

• COMPLETE

complete edition of her poems, edited by Sarah See also:

• ORNE

Orne See also:

• JEWETT, SARAH ORNE (1849–1909)

Jewett . She married in 1851 See also:

• LEVI, HERMANN (1839-1900)
• LEVI, LEONE (1821-1888)

Levi L . See also:

• THAXTER, CELIA (1836—1894)

Thaxter (d . 1884), a devoted student of See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT (z8o6-r861)
• BROWNING, OSCAR (1837- )
• BROWNING, ROBERT (1812-1889)

Browning's See also:

• POETRY

poetry, and spent most of her life on Appledore, one of the Isles of Shoals, where she died on the 26th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1894 . Her son See also:

• ROLAND
• ROLAND, LEGEND OF

Roland Thaxter (b . 1858), a well-known cryptogamic botanist, became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany at Harvard in 1891 .