Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index.
Contents:
Gloucester: Judith Sargent Murray; Virginia Lee Burton; Charles Olson; Vincent Ferrini; Joseph Garland; Jonathan Bayliss; Gregory Gibson -- Ipswich: Nathaniel Ward; Anne Bradstreet; William Hubbard; Thomas Franklin Waters; Ed Emberley; John Updike -- Essex: Reverend John Wise; Dana Story -- Lynn: Alonzo Lewis and the Lynn poets; Lydia Estes Pinkham -- Nahant: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Marblehead: Ashley Bowen -- Amesbury: John Greenleaf Whittier -- Salisbury -- Newburyport: William Lloyd Garrison; Harriet Prescott Spofford; John Marquand; Rhina Espaillat; Andre Dubus III -- Peabody: Hannah Webster Foster and Eliza Whitman -- Danvers -- Beverly: Oliver Wendell Holmes; Lucy Larcom; Ellery Sedgwick -- Hamilton: Mary Abigail Dodge -- Salem: Samuel Sewall; Reverend William Bentley; Nathaniel Bowditch; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and Mary Peabody Mann; Jones Very; Kate Tannatt Woods; Charlotte Forten GrimkeĢ; Lydia Pinkham -- Andover: Anne Bradstreet; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward -- Haverhill: John Greenleaf Whittier; Winfield Townley Scott; Bob Montana; Andre Dubus II -- Lawrence: Robert Frost -- Lowell: Lucy Larcom; Jack Kerouac -- Appendix: A North Shore & Merrimack Valley book store sampler.
Summary:
Their pages of verse and prose have been read and enjoyed by generations; now witness firsthand the inspiration for those perfectly penned lines of Longfellow, Frost and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Discover the strong feminist voice of Judith Sargent Murray as you stroll down Middle Street in Gloucester, or navigate the narrow, winding streets of Marblehead and flip through the eighteenth-century journals of the sailor Ashley Bowen. Plan a literary themed cultural outing or simply take a closer look at your town's local landmarks. From the "gem-emblazoned shore" of "lovely Lynn" to the gleaming gables in Hawthorne's Salem, this book uncovers some of the North Shore's most precious literary treasures.
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