At age sixteen, JWH
's mother, born Julia Rush Cutler
, was sent to live at a boarding house in New York, not an uncommon living arrangement for young, unmarried women at the time.
Tharp, Louise Hall. Three Saints and a Sinner. Little, Brown and Co., 1956.
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Literary responses
Sarah Lewis
Poe
's complex involvement in SL
's writing career played a significant role in the development of her literary reputation. According to The Poe Log, around May 1849 she asked Poe to compose an...
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...
Timeline
9 October 1849: Rufus Griswold (later editor and publicist...
Writing climate item
9 October 1849
Rufus Griswold
(later editor and publicist of Edgar Allan Poe
) published Poe's now-famous poem Annabel Lee in the New York Daily Tribune in an obituary two days after the author's mysterious death.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
