FRESH STUFF DAILY
Seacoast New Hampshire
& South Coast Maine
Subscribe To Our Newsletter
|
|
| |
|
|
|
d4c
canada cheapest med lexapro propecia with out a prescription canadian levitra buying viagra cialis 5 mg cost of cialis buy tramadol get viagra without a prescription cialis daily viagra on line viagra support team buy propecia propecia without prescription canadian cialis canadian pharmacy no prescription viagra from canada ACCOMPLIA(BUY) cialis canada canadian pharmacy viagra for sale canada cheapest med canadian pharmacy support team Pharmacy Suopport Team where to buy fenfluramine cheap online viagra online cialis
0
|
Beyond the Garden Gate
|
 |
 |
|
Written by Norma Mandel
|
|
SEACOAST BOOKS
Just released
Following the release of One Woman’s Work in 2001, Norma Mandel's new biography is the second major study of Celia Laighton
Thaxter in three years. Enormously popular in her lifetime, the poet of the Isles
of Shoals is regaining her fame. Since we run the only Celia Thaxter web site
-- we're pleased as punch to welcome this new book.
SEE: Norma Mandel’s “Life of Celia timeline” on SeacoastNH.com
VISIT: Celia Thaxter web site
BEYOND THE GARDEN GATE:
The Life of Celia Laighton Thaxter
By Norma H. Mandel
The first new biography in twenty years of a beloved New England writer.
From the publisher::
 Celia Laighton Thaxter was an author, painter, gardener, and one of the most
popular New England poets of the late nineteenth century. Her nonfiction works,
An Island Garden and Among the Isles of Shoals, continue to engage readers; "her
prose," Smithsonian Magazine has said, "has a timeless quality that makes delightful
reading today."
Much of Thaxter’s writing was inspired by the Isles of Shoals, an isolated cluster
of islands off the coast of New Hampshire, where she was raised and spent much
of her life. As a result, she is often thought to have lived a circumscribed existence,
but as Norma Mandel demonstrates in this new biography, Thaxter was an active
participant in Boston’s vibrant cultural life. Her close friends included Sarah
Orne Jewett, John Greenleaf Whittier, and James and Annie Fields, and she moved
in a literary circle that included such figures as Hawthorne, Emerson, Longfellow,
and Holmes. Thaxter was also the hostess of a vibrant summer salon on Appledore
Island where artists Childe Hassam and William Morris Hunt and musicians Julius
Eichberg and William Mason were among the frequent visitors.
Drawing on previously unexamined letters and family papers as well as Thaxter’s
own writings and other sources, Mandel not only reveals new details about the
author’s life but also places her in a broader literary and cultural context.
From Thaxter’s isolated childhood and early marriage, to her embrace of the Aesthetic
Movement and her fascination with spiritualism, to her lifelong struggle to secure
a steady income and care for a disabled child, Mandel offers the most comprehensive
biography yet written about a writer whose books about the natural world continue
to resonate.
NORMA MANDEL is a lecturer in the Education Program at Barnard College and was
a contributor to One Woman’s Work: The Visual Art of Celia Laighton Thaxter. She
received a Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of
New York.
University Press of New England
Hardcover, 192 pp. 6 x 9"
$24.95
BUY THIS BOOK NOW from Amazon.com
|
Please visit these SeacoastNH.com ad partners.
Portsmouth Herald
|
Portsmouth Herald Latest Headlines
|
| Portsmouth Herald News from SeacoastOnline.com |
-
Thief stole charity jar from donut shop, say police
PORTSMOUTH — While a Dunkin' Donuts clerk turned her back to fill an order, Derrick Rice stole a counter-top jar filled with donations for children with cancer, allege police.
-
Portsmouth police log
7:08 a.m. Arrested Shari Webber, 29, of 258 Leslie Dr., for a count of driving after alcohol-related suspension.
-
City resident arrested on child porn charges
PORTSMOUTH — Eight months after a woman accused him of viewing child pornography, a Salmon Avenue man has been arrested on multiple counts of possessing child porn and a single...
-
Boys soccer: STA falls in double overtime
EXETER — For 110 minutes the St. Thomas Aquainas and Coe-Brown High School boys soccer teams battled for a spot in the Class I final, taking a 0-0 game into...
-
High School football: Clippers need to start strong
Like a stubborn man who refuses to take his medication, the Portsmouth High School football team has been living dangerously this season.
-
High School football: Weekend game capsules
WINNACUNNET VS. SPAULDING
-
Montreal edges Bruins in shootout
BOSTON — Patrice Bergeron's goal with 52 seconds left in regulation helped the Bruins avoid a historic third straight shutout, but Michael Cammalleri scored in the shootout to give the...
-
Little Clippers advance
-
High School football: Playoffs begin with York and Portsmouth
If you look at the Mountain Valley High School football team's two most recent games — losses to second-seeded York (33-14) and top-seeded Cape Elizabeth (34-0) ˆ' you might conclude...
-
UNH hockey regroups after Wisconsin losses
After spending much of their time in scrambling to get the puck out of their own zone against Wisconsin last weekend, the University of New Hampshire men's hockey team is...
-
Seacoast mourning Bavicchi, a 'visionary'
PORTSMOUTH — There is a granite slab outside the Shoals Building at Portsmouth Regional Hospital that recognizes the tireless work of three men who guided the health care facility to...
-
Ferris G. Bavicchi
RYE BEACH — Ferris G. Bavicchi, 84, died Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, at Portsmouth Regional Hospital.
-
Stephen M. Carroll
PORTSMOUTH — Stephen Michael Carroll, beloved son, brother and uncle, died peacefully Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, after a brief illness.
-
William C. Wilson
HAMPTON — William C. Wilson of Hampton Beach and Cape Coral, Fla., husband of Maryann T. (Fitzgerald), died Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009.
-
Gov. Lynch helps Red Cross honor 'Heroes'
PORTSMOUTH — Heroes may not be as rare as thought.
-
Community asked to welcome home Jordyn Boucher
BRENTWOOD — Jordyn Boucher is coming home after a two-month stay at Children's Hospital in Boston, and her family is asking the Seacoast community to help welcome her.
-
Plea deal follows police call alleging man had firearm
RYE — Arrested after police responded to a 911 call about an intoxicated man with a gun, Sean Tichey was absolved of a Class A misdemeanor Thursday as part of...
-
UNH study: Child porn probes take physical, mental toll on police
PORTSMOUTH — Police officers exposed to child pornography as part of criminal investigations live with "mental health problems," according to a University of New Hampshire study based on interviews with...
-
Woman on trek to feed need in Maine
If you see a lively lady in a bright yellow hard hat walking along the highways and streets of Maine, be sure to stop and say hello — and while...
-
Portsmouth shop to give away cupcakes Saturday
PORTSMOUTH — If there's one thing Debbie Mugherini, owner of the Old Stove Bake Shoppe, wants people to take away from her shop, it's a smile.
|
|
|
|
|
| Saturday, November 07, 2009 |
|
|
|
