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Celia Thaxter

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Profession
Poet
Died
Aug 25, 1894
Zodiac
Cancer
Born in
Portsmouth NH
About
American poet known for such beloved nature poems as "The Sandpiper," "The Kingfisher," and "The Great White Owl." She was a prominent member of the nineteenth-century New England literary scene.
Family
The daughter of a lighthouse keeper, she grew up on the Isles of Shoals (near Maine and New Hampshire). She and her husband, Levi Thaxter, had a son named Roland.

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