Sarah Helen Whitman

Name

Sarah Helen Whitman

Biography at Poetry Foundation

First Name

Sarah

Additional Names

Helen (middle)

S.H.W. (initials)

Power (maiden)

Last Name

Whitman

Born

19 January 1803

Died

27 June 1878

Profession

Writer

Poet

Note

Romantically linked to Edgar Allen Poe.

One of the central figures in Steven Lubar's article "So Near, Yet, Oh, How Far: Creating Little Compton as a Summer Destination," Rhode Island History 82:2:62-79 (Fall 2025).

Related Places

Rhode Island

Associated Causes

Abolition

Spiritualism

Women's Rights

Religious Affiliation

Transcendentalism

Description

Source for portrait - Public Domain

Relation

S.H.W.

George Shepard Burleigh