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Sarah Helen Power Whitman (1803–1878)
Whitman, Sarah Helen Power. An American poet; born in Providence, RI, in 1803; died on 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.