When William Met Celia
Late in life, William Dean Howells briefly described his first meeting with Celia Thaxter.
How Mr. Fields Saved “The Scarlet Letter”
Without Mr. Fieldsm you might never have written the term paper
Political Poems for the Common Man
Sam Walter Foss distrusted politicians and rich folks, trusted common folks
A True Fan of the Aldrich House Museum
A souvenir of a memorial to a novel about bad boys in POrtsmouth
Pat Wall Talks about “Beyond Freedom”
Enslaved in Portsmouth, freed in Boston, two books for children
The Ballad of Jack Ringbolt
A rediscovered masterwork of horror, maritime history, and religious passion by the tortured pen of James Kennard, Jr.
The Men in “The Tent on the Beach” by Whittier
A beach, a poem, and three writers in a tent in 1867
Turning Seacoast Fact into Historical Fiction
Kenneth Roberts drew heavily from local history for his novels and many have followed
Nathaniel Hawthorne: 10-Days at the Isles of Shoals in 1852
Arguably, the most compelling word-picture of life at the Shoals as tourism challenged two centuries of fishing culture
An Introduction to Hawthorne on the Isles of Shoals
Craig Brown paves the way for the must-read 1852 journals of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sally Wood was First Maine Novelist
Did Dan Brown borrow her Illuminati novel idea?