Sarah Helen (Power) Whitman (19 January 1803-27 June 1878), poet, essayist, and reformer, was born and lived in Providence, Rhode Island, until her marriage in 1828 to a lawyer, John Winslow Whitman. ...
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Edgar Allan Poe met Sarah Helen Whitman for the first time at her home in Providence, Rhode Island, on 21 September 1848. Both were widowed; he was in his thirty-ninth year, and she in her forty-fifth...
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Sarah Helen (Power) Whitman