Beyond the Garden Gate: The Life of Celia Laighton Thaxter
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...
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The first new biography in twenty years of a beloved New England writer.
\ From the Publisher"Beyond the Garden Gate is compelling reading . . . in fact I couldn't put the book down once I started it."--Hortus: A Gardening Journal\ "More than 100 years after her death, Celia Thaxter remains one of New Hampshire's premier literary and artistic figures . . . Mandel's wide knowledge of the music, art and literature of Thaxter's times, her extensive research into primary sources, her clear affinity and admiration for Thaxter herself and, of course, the fact that Thaxter led an extraordinary life makes this an extraordinarily readable biography . . . Beyond the Garden Gate pulls back the parlor drapes on a life lived fully and courageously."--Concord Monitor\ "This groundbreaking book places Thaxter within the context of her time, and shows how she was active in the cultural life of Boston where she interacted with Emerson, Longfellow, and other leading figures."--BellaOnline's Floral Design\ \ \
