The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Whitman, Sarah Helen

WHITMAN, Sarah Helen, an American poetess, born in Providence, R. I., in 1803. She married in 1828 John Winslow Whitman, a lawyer of Boston, since whose death in 1833 she has resided in Providence. She has published &ldquo;Hours of Life, and other Poems&rdquo; (1853); &ldquo;Edgar Poe and his Critics&rdquo; (1860); and with her sister, Anna Marsh Power, two fairy ballads, &ldquo;Cinderella&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Sleeping Beauty&rdquo; (revised ed., 1867-'8).