Celia Thaxter found solace, friendship and fame on the Isles of Shoals, a tiny archipelago off the coast of New Hampshire and...
Before Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women, she wrote a book about a young girl named Sylvia in love with an intellectual...
Delia Bacon hated William Shakespeare so passionately she lost her mind and her health trying to prove he didn’t write those plays....
Publisher and poet James Fields saw his career take off after he married Annie Adams Fields. It was not a coincidence. Fields’...
In 1832, a young widower named Horace Mann moved into a Boston boardinghouse where he met two intellectual schoolteachers from Salem, Mary...
In the middle of the 18th century, visitors to the Old Corner Bookstore would find James Thomas Fields laughing and talking with...