She was engaged to be married to Edgar Allan Poe for a short time.
Sarah Helen Whitman died on 1878-06-27.
Sarah Helen Whitman was born on 1803-01-19.
Sarah Helen - Power - Whitman has written: 'Poems' -- subject- s -: Accessible book
19 January 1803
The book written by Sarah Helen Whitman was titled "Edgar Poe and His Critics" and published by Rudd & Carleton of New York in 1860.
Sarah Helen Whitman has written: 'Hours of life' -- subject(s): Accessible book 'Poem, recited before the Rhode Island Historical Society on January 13, 1847' 'Was Poe Immoral?' 'Edgar Poe and His Critics'
because poe had a drinking problem
Edgar Allan Poe proposed to Helen Whitman in a cemetery. How romantic! Unfortunately, after being engaged for a year, Edgar Allan Poe broke it off. Helen Whitman's real name, though, is Sarah Helen Whitman. I don't know why she would rather be called Helen than Sarah??
Sarah W. Whitman was born in 1842.
Sarah W. Whitman died in 1904.
Sarah Whitman Hooker House was created in 1720.
The true name of the poem is "To ___ ___ ___" Poe wrote this to poet Sarah Helen Whitman in 1848. The three blanks intended to refer to Sarah Helen Whitman. Later, in 1850, Rufus Griswold reprinted the poem but with the new title "To Helen" despite the fact that Poe had already written a different poem to a different woman but also entitled "To Helen." After Poe's wife Virginia died, he became engaged to Whitman but she broke it off when Poe was unable to keep the promise he had made to her to stop drinking.