The story, so fertile for later authors, of her despair at Phaon
's rejection of her and her suicidal leap from the White Rock of Leucas (or the Leucadian cliff) off the Greek coast, is unsubstantiated.
Family and Intimate relationships
Sappho
A story arose that another poet of the time, Alcæus
(whose work is often linked with Sappho
's), conceived a passion
Hays, Mary. Female Biography. Richard Phillips, 1803, 6 vols.
380
for her that she did not reciprocate. A biography from the Hellenic period...
Textual Production
Mary Robinson
MR
issued one of her best-known works, a sequence of forty-four erotic sonnets entitled Sappho
and Phaon.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen, 1994.
