An Island Garden Paperback - 2019
by Celia Thaxter; Childe Hassam (Illustrator)
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Though Celia Thaxter had always thought of herself first and foremost as a poet, it is her Island Garden for which she is remembered. This, a collection of remembrances and advice from her summers gardening on Appledore Island among the Isles of Shoals, was originally published in 1894, shortly before her death.
Her father, Thomas Laighton, a linchpin of the nineteenth-century New England cultural scene, ran the Appledore House Hotel, which became a salon for many prominent writers and artists, including figures such Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Jewett, and Whittier. Childe Hassam, the famous American Impressionist whose delicate watercolor paintings appear throughout this volume, treasured his summers spent with these "jolly, refined, interesting and artistic set of people...like one large family."
Celia's garden, on this same island, was admired by her friends and neighbors, and her picturesque language captures its stretching stems and blossoming flowers in vivid prose, ranging in mood from bitter defeat delivered by unrelenting slugs to the exultant triumph of birdsong and bursting blooms. For over a century, An Island Garden has served as an example of the very best garden writing has to offer, and inspiration for all writers of prose.Details
- Title An Island Garden
- Author Celia Thaxter; Childe Hassam (Illustrator)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 156
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher David R. Godine Publisher
- Date 2019-06-27
- ISBN 9781567926439 / 1567926436
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 16.76 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: New England
- Geographic Orientation: Maine
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress subjects Celia Thaxter's Garden (Appledore Island,, Gardens - Maine - Appledore Island
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018053738
- Dewey Decimal Code 635.097
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