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The illustrated classic of an inspired woman and her flower garden on Appledore Island. Celia Thaxter's small garden with hollyhocks and poppies and scarlet flax was admired by her friends, neighbors, and visitors to the island off the coast of Portland, Maine. In vivid... Read Full Overview

Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894) was born in Portsmouth, NH. When she was four, her father became the lighthouse keeper on White Island in the Isles of Shoals. After resigning his post eight years later, he built a resort hotel on Appledore Island in Maine. The first of its... Read Full Overview

An exquisite gift book illustrated by America's most beloved Impressionist painter, with both prose and poetical excerpts from the work of Celia Thaxter. The artist's beautiful work decorates every page of the book, leaving room for a reader's appointments or notes on his or... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

"An Island Garden" is a delightful work written by Celia Thaxter, an American poet and writer. Published in 1894, this book reflects Thaxter's passion for gardening and her experiences tending to a garden on Appledore Island, located off the coast of Maine. In "An Island Garden,"... Read Full Overview

In her introduction to this new edition, the gardener, writer, illustrator, and craftsperson Tasha Tudor explores the space Celia Thaxter made for herself on one of the Isles of Shoals and the place her gentle, commonsense journal has held in the hearts of gardeners and artists... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

An Island Garden is a beautiful book written by Celia Thaxter, an American poet and writer. The book is a collection of essays that describe the author's garden on Appledore Island, off the coast of Maine. Thaxter's garden was a place of great beauty, filled with flowers, herbs,... Read Full Overview

An Island Garden is a book written by Celia Thaxter that describes her experiences in creating and maintaining a garden on the Isle of Shoals, a group of islands off the coast of Maine. The book is divided into chapters that correspond to the different seasons of the year, and... Read Full Overview

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe... Read Full Overview