Celia Laighton Thaxter, poet, painter and china decorator, was born
in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and was raised on Appledore, White Island
of the Isles of Shoal, ten miles from the place where her father,
Thomas Laighton, was keeper of the lighthouse. She was a
lonely child as few people were around. The rugged natural beauty
of the islands
inspired her popular poetry and painting during the nineteenth century.
In
1852 when Celia Laighton was sixteen, she married (showing 500 of 4098 characters). |
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