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See also:THAXTER, CELIA (1836—1894) , See also:American poet, was See also:born at See also:Portsmouth, New See also:Hampshire, on the 29th of See also:June 1836. Her See also:father, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas B. Laighton, became offended with some of his associates in See also:state politics, and retired about 1841 to the barren and isolated Isles of Shoals, ten See also:miles off Portsmouth, where for about ten years he was keeper of the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White See also:Island lighthouse; and his daughter's girlhood was therefore spent in marine surroundings, which coloured the best of the See also:verse she after-wards wrote. Her poems, mainly in lyrical See also:form, See also:deal with the See also:beacon-See also:light, the See also:sea-See also:storm, the glint of sails, the See also:sand-See also:piper, the See also:flower among the rocks, &c., in characteristic and sympathetic fidelity. She also wrote See also:prose sketches of See also:life and scenery, Among the Isles of Shoals (1873); stories and poems for See also:children, and letters; besides a See also:book about floriculture, An Island See also:Garden (1894). In 1896 appeared a See also:complete edition of her poems, edited by Sarah See also:Orne See also:Jewett. She married in 1851 See also:Levi L. Thaxter (d. 1884), a devoted student of See also:Robert See also:Browning's See also:poetry, and spent most of her life on Appledore, one of the Isles of Shoals, where she died on the 26th of See also:August 1894. Her son See also:Roland Thaxter (b. 1858), a well-known cryptogamic botanist, became See also:professor of See also:botany at Harvard in 1891.
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