| Birth Day | June 29, 1835 |
| Birth Place | Portsmouth, NH |
| Age | 184 YEARS OLD |
| Died On | Aug 25, 1894 (age 59) |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
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.
During the early years of her career, she published poems in The Atlantic Monthly.
She was a family friend of Painter
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.
She worked as a hostess in her father's Maine hotel, which was a popular gathering place for prominent authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
