The year after Records of the Heart appeared, SL
and her husband
became acquainted with Edgar Allan Poe
. Facing poverty and illness, Poe reportedly welcomed their kindness, friendship, and most importantly, their generosity. In...
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Friends, Associates
Sarah Lewis
The relationship between SL
and Poe seems more interesting to scholars, and is more frequently discussed, than most of Lewis's writings. Poe and his mother-in-law, Maria Clemm
, spent a great deal of time at...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sarah Lewis
At the age of seventeen, Estelle Anna Robinson
(who later wrote as Sarah Lewis) married Sylvanus D. Lewis
, an attorney.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Sarah Lewis
Sarah Lewis
and her husband, Sylvanus D. Lewis
, divorced; after that she began several years of extensive European travels.
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