Celia Thaxter

Celia Thaxter was an American writer of poetry and stories. She spent much of her life on the Isles of Shoals, off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine, where her father ran the Appledore Hotel. Her book Among the Isles of Shoals and her early autobiography describe that island life. In the late nineteenth century she was one of the most popular writers in America, and poems such as The Sandpiper are still read.