Sarah Helen Whitman

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Helen Power Whitman (January 19, 1803 – June 27, 1878) was an American poet, essayist, transcendentalist, feminist, and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe.

Early life

Whitman was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on January 19, 1803, just six years before Poe's birth. She was the niece of Nicholas Power and Anna Marsh's daughter. In 1828, she married John Winslow Whitman, a poet and writer. John was co-editor of the Boston Spectator and Ladies' Album, which allowed Sarah to showcase some of her poems under the name "Helen." John was born in 1833, and Sarah never had children; he and Jane never had children.

Sarah Helen Whitman had a heart disease that she treated with ether she breathed in through her handkerchief.

Whitman was a mentor of Margaret Fuller and other scholars in New England. She became interested in transcendentalism through this social group after hearing Ralph Waldo Emerson speak in Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence. She became involved with science, mesmerism, and the occult. She had a penchant for wearing black and a coffin-shaped charm around her neck, and she may have held séances in her home on Sundays, attempting to connect with the deceased.

Later life

In 1853, Whitman's collection Hours of Life and Other Poems was published. In 1860, eleven years after his death, she published a book in defense of Poe against his followers, aimed specifically at Rufus Griswold's Edgar Allan Poe and His Critics. The book, according to a Baltimore newspaper, was a noble effort, "but it does not wipe out the... dishonest records" in Dr.'s biography. "Griswold" Griswold. William Douglas O'Connor is likely inspired to write The Good Gray Poet, a similar defense of Walt Whitman, which appeared in 1866. Ingram's Poe collection is now held at the University of Virginia's Alderman Library, in Poe, who added her letters from Poe and a daguerrotype portrait to the library of documents he was amassing; Ingram's Poe collection is now located at the Ingram Library.

Sarah Helen Whitman died in Providence, Rhode Island, at the home of a friend at 97 Bowen St., and is buried in the North Burial Ground. In her will, she used the majority of her estate to publish a collection of her own poetry and that of her sister. She also donated to the Providence Association for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals and the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

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