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

An Island Garden by Celia Thaxter, first published in 1894, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1894 Edition.

Celia Thaxter grew up on a desolate island off the coast of Maine, where her father worked as lighthouse keeper. Amid the white and gray of the sea, the rocks,