| An Island Garden Contributor(s): Thaxter, Celia (Author), Hassam, Childe (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1567926436 ISBN-13: 9781567926439 Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Women Authors - Gardening | Essays & Narratives - Gardening | Flowers - General |
| Dewey: 635.097 |
| LCCN: 2018053738 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.6" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 156 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - Maine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The illustrated classic of an inspired woman and her flower garden on Appledore Island. Celia Thaxter's small garden with hollyhocks and poppies and scarlet flax was much admired by friends, neighbors, and visitors to the island off the coast of Portland, Maine. There, she wrote this collection of remembrances and gardening advice that was originally published in 1894, shortly before her death. It has never been out of print since. In vivid prose, Thaxter captures the stretching stems and blossoming flowers in moods ranging from bitter defeat--delivered by unrelenting slugs--to the exultant triumph of birdsong and bursting blooms. Any gardener will understand and take heart from Thaxter's philosophical outlook. "I am fully and intensely aware," she writes, "that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else." Many artists found inspiration in Celia Thaxter's garden including the American impressionist, Childe Hassam, who provided this enduring book's many full-page paintings and chapter head decorations. This book is perfect for anyone passionate about flowers and the many trials and triumphs of gardening. |
Contributor Bio(s): Thaxter, Celia: - Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894) was born in Portsmouth, NH, and when she was four her father became the lighthouse keeper on White Island, Isles of Shoals, NH. Eight years later he resigned his keepers job and built a large hotel on Appledore Island, ME In addition to her poetry, she also published a human and natural history called Among the Isles of Shoals (1873).Hassam, Childe: - Childe Hassam (1859"€"1935), a pioneer of American Impressionism and perhaps its most prolific and successful practitioner, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, into a family descended from settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He is best known for his urban and coastal scenes. |