Authors And Friends

Authors And Friends is a book written by Annie Fields, an American author, editor, and social reformer. The book is a collection of essays and personal recollections of her interactions with various authors and literary figures of the 19th century. Fields was a close friend of many prominent writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and her book offers insights into their lives and works through her unique perspective. The essays are written in a conversational style and cover a range of topics, from literary criticism to personal anecdotes. Fields also includes some of her own poetry and reflections on her own life as a writer and editor. Overall, Authors And Friends offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of 19th-century American literature and the lives of the writers who helped shape it.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.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work