SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN
\sˈe͡əɹə hˈɛlən pˈa͡ʊə wˈɪtmən], \sˈeəɹə hˈɛlən pˈaʊə wˈɪtmən], \s_ˈeə_ɹ_ə h_ˈɛ_l_ə_n p_ˈaʊ_ə w_ˈɪ_t_m_ə_n]\
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An American poet; born in Providence, R. I., in 1803; died June 27, 1878. She married John W. Whitman, a Boston Lawyer. She was once engaged to Edgar Allan Poe. afterwards writing a defense of him entitled "Edgar A. Poe and his Critics" (1860). She was noted for her conversational powers. She published several volumes of poems, among them being the volume "Hours of Life, and Other Poems" (1853); also "Fairy Ballads", written with her sister, Anna M. Power.
By Charles Dudley Warner
