Authors and Friends

Annie Fields

Authors and Friends
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Published
10 September 2010
Pages
190
ISBN
9781162654157

Authors and Friends

Annie Fields

The solitude of Celia Thaxter’s childhood, which was not solitude, surrounded as she was with the love of a father and a mother, all tenderness, and brothers dear to her as her own life, developed in the child strange faculties. She was five years old when the family left Portsmouth, –old enough, given her inborn power of enjoyment of nature, to delight in the free air and the wonderful sights around her. She gives in her book a pretty picture of the child watching the birds that flew against the lighthouse lantern, when they lived at White Island. The birds would strike it with such force as to kill themselves

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