Although she was known as a poet and story writer, her book that I most value is An Island Garden (published the year she died), with illustrations by Childe Hassam, an Impressionist painter I admire highly. (He hated the term, by the way, and didn't fit the label neatly, but it gives you an idea.)
The island, in the Isles of Shoals of the shore of Maine and New Hampshire, is a remarkable place, as I found in a visit I posted here on June 14, 2020, "Celia's garden … on Appledore Island."
Under her guidance, the hotel her family owned and operated became what can be seen as the nation's first artists colony every summer, attracting a who's who of writers, painters, musicians, and more. Her influence can be seen especially in many of New England's authors of the period.
Reading about her, I'll confess, can be as pleasurable as reading her work itself.
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