Sappho was well-received, though perhaps not quite to the extent SL
imagined. She wrote to a friend in 1877, The British press has placed me on a plane with Shakespeare
—the highest position accorded to...
names
Sarah Lewis
BirthName: Sarah Anna Robinson
Some sources add a third given name, Blanche.
Nickname: Sarah Delmonte Lewis
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.
13: 570
Kunitz, Stanley J., and Howard Haycraft, editors. American Authors, 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature. H. W. Wilson, 1938.
466
Scholars are divided as to whether her birthname was Estelle or Sarah. Edgar Allan Poe
's...
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Texts
Walsh, Thomas. “Stella and Her Brooklyn Salon”. The Bookman, Vol.