Thaxter, Celia (1835 – 1894)

 29 June 1835 – 25 August 1894

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Image Information:

Photographer: Date: about 1880 Occasion: Source: The Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University Permissions: http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/
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Pertinent Archives:

Barnard College Library (correspondence and manuscripts of women including Thaxter) (http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/library/)
Boston Public Library (correspondence and poems) (http://www.bpl.org/)
Central Michigan University, Clarke Historical Library (letters to John Greenleaf Whittier) (http://clarke.cmich.edu/)
The Huntington Library (letters) (http://www.huntington.org/)
Library of Congress, Manuscript Division (poem “The Blind Lamb”) (http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/)

Middlebury College, Abernethy Collection of American Literature (correspondence and drafts of women including Thaxter) (http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/lis/about/library_info/special_collections/collections/abernethy/)
New Hampshire Historical Society (correspondence and poems) (http://www.nhhistory.org/)
Smith College, Sophia Smith Collection (letters to Caroline Maria Seymour Severance) (http://www.smith.edu/libraries/ssc/)
University of Iowa Libraries (correspondence, a poem, and photos) (http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/)
University of New Hampshire Library, Special Collections (correspondence and literary manuscripts of women including Thaxter) (http://www.library.unh.edu/special/)
Westbrook College (correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, photos, memorabilia, and books of women including Thaxter) (http://www.une.edu/)

Legacy References:

Putzi, Jennifer. “Review of ed. Paula Bernat Bennett’s Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets: An Anthology and ed. Susan Cummins Miller’s A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1920.” Legacy 18.1 (2001):  109-10. [GW]  [LION]

White, Barbara A. Legacy Profile:  “Celia Thaxter, 1835-1984.” Legacy 7.1 (1990):  59-64.

Wilder, Sarah Ann. “Review of eds. Karen L. Kilcup and Thomas S. Edwards’s Jewett and Her Contemporaries: Reshaping the Canon.” Legacy 18.2 (2001):  242-43. [GW]  [LION]