1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
THAXTER, CELIA (1836-1894), American poet, was born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the agth of June 1836. Her father, Thomas B. Laighton, became offended with some of his associates in state politics, and retired about 1841 to the barren and isolated Isles of Shoals, ten miles off Portsmouth, where for about ten years he was keeper of the White Island lighthouse; and his daughter's girlhood was therefore spent in marine surroundings, which coloured the best of the verse she afterwards wrote. Her poems, mainly in …
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