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

Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1803, Sarah Helen Whitman (named Sarah Helen Power at birth) was the daughter of Nicholas and Anna (Marsh) Power. She was a poet, essayist, and critic noted for her sharp intellect, and she was remembered for her relationship with Poe.

2025年1月15日 · Sarah Helen Whitman (born January 19, 1803, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.—died June 27, 1878, Providence) was an American poet and essayist, noted for her literary criticism and perhaps best remembered for her alliance with …

2014年6月21日 · Sarah Helen Whitman dumped Edgar Allan Poe, but only after she inspired him to deface library property in the Providence Athenaeum.

2022年6月26日 · (Born: January 19, 1803 - Died: June 27, 1878) American poet. Sarah Helen Power was born in Providence, RI. Her parents were Anna Marsh and Nicholas Power. Her father was captured by the British in 1813, impressed into service in the British Navy. He continued his service at sea until 1831.

One of the Athenæum’s most famous visitors was Edgar Allan Poe. In September of 1848, he traveled to Providence in order to meet and court the wealthy Rhode Island widow, Sarah Helen Whitman. Whitman was a Providence poet, critic, Spiritualist, and cultural figure.

Sarah Helen Whitman, 1869. Oil portrait by John Nelson Arnold. Photo courtesy of Brown University. Sarah Helen Power Whitman (1803-1878) was born at her grandfather’s house in Providence at 10:00 in the evening on January 19, exactly six years before the birth of her future suitor, Edgar Allan Poe. She was the second surviving child…

At the time of this book's publication, the work of Sarah Helen Whitman, Providence's most famous poet, had been out of print for more than 60 years, and the poems of Poe and his Rhode Island fiancee had never before appeared together in one collection.

2023年10月26日 · Sarah Helen Whitman, née Power (b. 1804–d. 1878), was a poet, essayist, literary critic, translator, and spiritualist from Providence, Rhode Island. She was a descendent of Nicholas Power, one of the founders of Rhode Island.

Born to Nicholas and Anna Marsh Power of Benefit Street on January 19, 1803, Sarah Helen Whitman, nee Power, was a prominent cultural figure. From the 1830s onward, Whitman maintained Rhode Island’s preeminent literary salon at her Providence home.

WHITMAN, SARAH HELEN. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, 1803; died there, 1879. She is chiefly known for her association with Edgar Allan Poe, to whom she was betrothed in 1848. The engagement with Poe was broken, owing to the irregularity of the poet’s habits, but Mrs. Whitman remained his admirer and in 1860 published a monograph in his ...

Born Sarah Helen Power on January 19, 1803, in Providence, Rhode Island; died on June 27, 1878, in Providence; daughter of Nicholas Power and Anna (Marsh) Power; married John Winslow Whitman (a poet and editor), on July 10, 1828 (died 1833); no children.

2013年1月17日 · Sarah Helen Whitman was a poet and essayist and interested in transcendentalism, mesmerism, and spiritualism. She hosted well-known writers at her salon in Providence, and served as vice president of the Rhode Island suffrage association.

Sarah Helen Power Whitman was an American poet, essayist, transcendentalist, spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe.

With Catharine Williams and Frances Whipple, Sarah Helen (Power) Whitman was one of a trio of contemporaneous women writers that has never been replicated in Rhode Island. Sarah Helen Whitman was inducted into The Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 2004.

Whitman was an advocate of educational reforms, divorce, the prevention of cruelty to animals, the liberal ethics of Fourier, women's rights, and universal suffrage. Opposing the materialism of the Protestant churches, she subscribed to the intellectual and spiritual idealism of the Transcendentalists.

Sarah Helen Whitman was a true nineteenth-century New England literata: she published her poems and essays in periodicals, was well known in literary circles in New York, hosted writers at her Providence salon, and is remembered as the fianc?e of one of America's most eminent writers of the period, Edgar Allen Poe, who immortalized her in one ...

During her life, Sarah Helen Whitman made a career for herself as both a critic and poet, publishing in top periodicals. Her upbringing featured a typical Quaker education as well as instruction in ladies’ etiquette, which exposed her to German, French, and Italian literature.

WHITMAN, Mrs. Sarah Helen, poet, born in Providence, R. I., in 1803, and died there 27th June, 1878. She was the daughter of Nicholas Power. She became the wife of John W. Whitman, a lawyer, of Boston, Mass., in 1828. SARAH HELEN WHITMAN. She lived in Boston until her husband died, in 1833, when she returned to Providence.

2021年10月17日 · Their latest acquisition will undoubtedly excite Poe fans, but especially those who are interested in Poe's courtship with Providence poetess, Sarah Helen Whitman. Here is what The Poe Museum had to say about an ambrotype…