Celia thaxter biography

American poet. Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on June 29, 1835; died on Appledore, one of the Isles of Shoals, off Portsmouth, on August 26, 1894; daughter of Thomas B.

Laighton (a newspaperman) and Eliza (Rymes) Laighton; married Levi Lincoln Thaxter, on September 30, 1851 (died 1884); children: Karl Thaxter; John Thaxter; Roland Thaxter (1858–1932, who would become a well-known botanist at Harvard, specializing in cryptogamic botany).

Celia Laighton Thaxter was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1835, the daughter of Thomas B.

Laighton and Eliza Rymes Laighton . Incensed by political associates and despairing of a political career in state government, Thomas retired to White Island, on the isolated Isles of Shoals, with Eliza and their three children in about 1841.

For approximately ten years, he was keeper of the White Island lighthouse. These surroundings—about ten miles off the coast of Portsmouth—would serve to color the best