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Beyond the Garden Gate
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Written by Norma Mandel
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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
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