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Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter. Her participation in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838 brought her national fame.
Gaynor's October 2018 novel The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter was a USA Today and Irish Times bestseller. Shortlisted for a Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown Award, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] the story of Grace Darling had fascinated Gaynor from a young age.
Arielle is the daughter of noted author Sterling North, who wrote Rascal. She is also the niece of author, poet and editor Jessica Nelson North. She is one of the copyright owners of Sterling North's body of work. She now has three children and seven grandchildren, and is a resident of St. Louis, Missouri.
Abbie was the fourth of nine children of Samuel and Thankful (Phinney) Burgess, [1] [2] who moved to Matinicus Rock in 1853 to become its lighthouse keeper. [3] Although only 15, she soon took over duties of tending the lighthouse so that Samuel could fish and catch lobster, which he sold in Rockland, Maine, 25 miles (40 km) away.
The Lighthouse Keepers (1929 film) The Lightkeepers (2009 film by Daniel Adams) Lighthouse Keeping Loonies (1975 TV series episode) The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter a.k.a. Manina, the Girl in the Bikini (1952 film) Pete's Dragon (1977 film by Don Chaffey) "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" (1971 song by Van der Graaf Generator)
Dombrowski, though, is one of this country's last resident lighthouse keepers. Like generations before him, he and his wife raised their family on Goat Island. "The whole lighthouse community is ...
From 1922 to 1925, she worked at the lighthouse along with her husband, fully taking over the duties after his death. [ 2 ] For a time, Salter was the only female employed by the United States Coast Guard and was the last civilian female lighthouse keeper in the U.S. [ 3 ] She was one of four female lighthouse keepers who served at Turkey Point ...
The novel is a mix of both exploratory metaphor and stories tolled by Silver's mentor, the lighthouse keeper. The Guardian reviewer Joanna Briscoe thought the first few chapters returned to the best of Winterson writing, describing the novel as a series of "self-contained tales" in which "the flavour of The Shipping News is tangling with The ...