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| - Celia Laighton Thaxter (June 29 1835, Portsmouth, New Hampshire – August 25 1894) was an American writer of poetry and stories. Thaxter grew up in the Isles of Shoals, first on White Island, where her father, Thomas Laighton, was a lighthouse keeper, and then on Smuttynose and Appledore Islands. When she was sixteen, she married Levi Thaxter and moved to the mainland. Her life with Levi was not harmonious and she missed her islands, and so after 10 years away, she moved back to Appledore Island. Her first published poem, Landlocked, was written during this time on the mainland. Celia became the hostess of her father's hotel, the Appledore House, and welcomed many New England literary and artistic notables to the island and to her parlor, including writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Whittier, Sarah Orne Jewett, and the artists William Morris Hunt andChilde Hassam, who painted several pictures of her. She was present at the time of the infamous murders on Smuttynose Island, about which she wrote the essay, A Memorable Murder. William Morris Hunt, a close family friend, spent the last months of his life on Appledore Island, trying to recover from a crippling depression. He drowned in late summer 1879, three days after finishing his last sketch. Celia Thaxter discovered the painter's body, who had apparently killed himself. Her poems first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and she became one of America's favorite authors in the late 19th century. Among her best-known poems are The Burgomaster Gull, Landlocked, Milking, The Great White Owl, The Kingfisher, and especially The Sandpiper. Celia Thaxter died suddenly on August 25 1894, aged 59, and was buried on Appledore, not far from her cottage. (en)
- Celia Thaxter (29 giugno 1835 - 25 agosto 1894) fu una poetessa e scrittrice statunitense. Nata e cresciuta nelle Isole Shoals, prima nella Isola White dove suo padre era il custode del faro, e poi sull'isola di Smuttynose. All'età di sedici anni si sposò con Levi Thaxter e si spostò sulla terraferma. Tuttavia la sua vita matrimoniale con Thaxter non fu molto pacifica provocando nella scrittrice una grande nostalgia delle sue isole dalle quali era ormai assente da ben 10 anni, fin quando prese la decisione di far ritorno nelle Appledore Islands. Il suo primo poema fu Landlocked risale però al suo periodo vissuto sulla terraferma. Dopo essere divenuta hostess nell'hotel tenuto da suo fratello, Celia lo trasformò in luogo di ritrovo di artisti e scrittori del New England, tra i quali Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Whittier, Sarah Orne Jewett, e l'artista Childe Hassam che le fece diversi ritratti. La Thaxter era presente sull'isola all'epoca dei terribili fatti di Smuttynose Island e sui quali scrisse un saggio dal titolo A Memorable Murder. Le sue opere poetiche apparvero dapprima sul The Atlantic Monthly e le diedero molta fama facendola diventare una degli autori americani più amati del XIX secolo. Morì improvvisamente il 25 agosto 1894 all'età di 59 anni e venne seppellita sull'isola di Appledore, non lontano dal suo cottage. (it)
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