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Name: Celia Thaxter
Birth - Death: 1835-1894
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  • Childhood in Poetry. A catalogue, with biographical and critical annotations, of the books of English and American poets comprising the Shaw Childhood in Poetry Collection in the Library of the Florida State University. Third Supplement. By John Mackay Shaw. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980. (ChhPo S3)
  • American National Biography. First supplement. Edited by Paul Betz and Mark C. Carnes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. (AmNatBi S1)
  • American Nature Writers. Two volumes. Edited by John Elder. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. (AmNatWr) Biography contains portrait.
  • Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature. First edition. Edited by George Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. (BenetAL)
  • Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 1: January, 1946-July, 1949. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1949. (BioIn 1)
  • Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 2: August, 1949-August, 1952. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1953. (BioIn 2)
  • Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 6: September, 1961-August, 1964. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1965. (BioIn 6)
  • Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 13: September, 1982-August, 1984. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1984. (BioIn 13)
  • The Children's Poets. Analyses and appraisals of the greatest English and American poets for children. By Walter Barnes. Yonkers- on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., 1924. (ChrP)
  • The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. By Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990. (FemiCLE)
  • A History of Women in the United States. State-by-state reference. Four volumes. Edited by Doris Weatherford. Danbury, CT: Grolier Academic Reference, 2004. Use the Index in Volume 4 to locate biographies.(HisWomUS)
  • The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Fifth edition. By James D. Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. (OxCAmL 5)
  • The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 1. New York: James T. White & Co., 1891. Use the Index to locate biographies. (NatCAB 1)
  • Biographies of American Women. An annotated bibliography. By Patricia E. Sweeney. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1990. (BioAmW)
  • American Women Writers. A critical reference guide from colonial times to the present. Second edition. Four volumes. Edited by Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. (AmWomWr 2)
  • Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 25: September, 1999-August, 2000. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 2000. (BioIn 25)
  • Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 27: September, 2001-August, 2002. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 2002. (BioIn 27)
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 239: American Women and Prose Writers, 1820-1870. Edited by Amy E. Hudock and Katherine Rodier. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. (DcLB 239) Biography contains portrait.
  • Dictionary of Women Worldwide. 25,000 women through the ages. Three volumes. Edited by Anne Commire. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, 2007. (DcWomW)
  • Historical Dictionary of New England. By Peter C. Holloran. Historical Dictionaries of Cities, States, and Regions, no. 13. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003. (HisDcNE)
  • Women in World History. A biographical encyclopedia. Seventeen volumes. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications, 1999-2002. Use the Index in vol. 17 to locate biographies. (WomWorHis) Biography contains portrait.
  • Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American authors. Two volumes. By John Foster Kirk. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1891. (Alli SUP)
  • American Authors, 1600-1900. A biographical dictionary of American literature. Edited by Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1938. (AmAu)
  • American Authors and Books. 1640 to the present day. Third revised edition. By W.J. Burke and Will D. Howe. Revised by Irving Weiss and Anne Weiss. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. (AmAu&B)
  • American Biographies. By Wheeler Preston. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. (AmBi)
  • American Women. A revised edition of Woman of the Century, 1,500 biographies with over 1,400 portraits; a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of American women during the nineteenth century. Two volumes. Edited by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore. New York: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897. (AmWom) biography
  • Articles on Women Writers. Volume 2, 1976-1984: A bibliography. By Narda Lacey Schwartz. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1986. (ArtclWW)
  • Bibliography of American Literature. Volume 8. Compiled by Jacob Blanck; edited and completed by Michael Winship. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990. (BibAL 8)
  • Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books Ancient and Modern. Edited by Charles Dudley Warner. Akron, OH: Werner Co., 1902. (BiD&SB)
  • Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 14: September, 1984-August, 1986. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1986. (BioIn 14)
  • Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 15: September, 1986-August, 1988. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1988. (BioIn 15)
  • Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 16: September, 1988-August, 1990. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1990. (BioIn 16)
  • Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 17: September, 1990-August, 1992. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1992. (BioIn 17)
  • Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 21: September, 1995-August, 1996. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1996. (BioIn 21)
  • The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. Edited by Claire Buck. New York: Prentice Hall General Reference, 1992. Biographies begin on page 247. (BlmGWL)
  • Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature. A history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day with specimens of their writings. Volume III: 19th-20th Century. Edited by David Patrick, revised by J. Liddell Geddie. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1938. Use the Index to locate biographies. (Chambr 3)
  • Childhood in Poetry. A catalogue, with biographical and critical annotations, of the books of English and American poets comprising the Shaw Childhood in Poetry Collection in the Library of the Florida State University. First edition. By John Mackay Shaw. Detroit: Gale Research, 1967. (ChhPo)
  • Childhood in Poetry. A catalogue, with biographical and critical annotations, of the books of English and American poets comprising the Shaw Childhood in Poetry Collection in the Library of the Florida State University. Second Supplement. By John Mackay Shaw. Detroit: Gale Research, 1976. (ChhPo S2)
  • Cyclopaedia of American Literature. Embracing personal and critical notices of authors, and selections from their writings, from the earliest period to the present day; with portraits, autographs, and other illustrations. Volume 2. By Evert A. Duyckinck and George L. Duyckinck. Philadelphia: William Rutter & Co., 1875. Use the Index in Volume 2 to locate biographies. (CyAL 2)
  • A Dictionary of American Authors. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. By Oscar Fay Adams. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1904. Biographies are found in the 'Dictionary of American Authors' section which begins on page 1 and in the 'Supplement' which begins on page 441. (DcAmAu)
  • Dictionary of American Biography. Volumes 1-20. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928-1936. (DcAmB)
  • A Dictionary of Literature in the English Language. From Chaucer to 1940. Compiled and edited by Robin Myers. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1970. (DcLEL A)
  • A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased before 1950. Compiled by W. Stewart Wallace. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1951. (DcNAA)
  • Encyclopedia of American Literature. Edited by Steven R. Serafin. New York: Continuum Publishing, 1999. (EncALit)
  • Index to Women of the World from Ancient to Modern Times: A Supplement. By Norma Olin Ireland. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1988. (InWom SUP)
  • Liberty's Women. Edited by Robert McHenry. Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1980. (LibW)
  • Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers. A bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. Edited by Denise D. Knight. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. (NinCAWW)
  • Notable American Women, 1607-1950. A biographical dictionary. Three volumes. Edited by Edward T. James. Cambridge, England: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 1971. (NotAW)
  • The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Fourth edition. By James D. Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. (OxCAmL 4)
  • The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Sixth edition. By James D. Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. (OxCAmL 6)
  • The Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature. By Max J. Herzberg. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1962. (REnAL)
  • Who Was Who in America. A component volume of Who's Who in American History. Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Revised Edition. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1967. (WhAm HS)
  • Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Six volumes. Edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888- 1889. (ApCAB)
  • Index to Women of the World from Ancient to Modern Times. Biographies and portraits. By Norma Olin Ireland. Westwood, MA: F.W. Faxon Co., 1970. (InWom)
  • The Lincoln Library of Language Arts. Third edition. Two volumes. Columbus, OH: Frontier Press Co., 1978. Biographies begin on page 345 of Volume 1 and are continued in Volume 2. (LinLib L)
  • The Lincoln Library of Social Studies. Eighth edition. Three volumes. Columbus, OH: Frontier Press Co., 1978. Biographies begin on page 865 of Volume 3. (LinLib S)
  • The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Brief biographies of authors, administrators, clergymen, commanders, editors, engineers, jurists, merchants, officials, philanthropists, scientists, statesmen, and others who are making American history. 10 volumes. Edited by Rossiter Johnson. Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904. (TwCBDA)