Episode Description:
While he never lived in Rhode Island, Edgar Allan Poe famously spent time here at the end of his life. He courted a Providence writer, Sarah Helen Whitman, and spent time at her East Side home, Swan Point Cemetery and the Athenaeum.
Episode Source Material:
- About… – Edgar Allan Poe: Rhode Island
- Sarah Helen Whitman, Providence Poet Who Dumped Edgar Allan Poe - New England Historical Society
- Sarah Helen Whitman, Providence Poet Who Dumped Edgar Allan Poe - New England Historical Society
- Sarah Helen Whitman - Wikipedia
- Sarah Helen Whitman | Poetry Foundation
- Sarah Helen Whitman | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica
- Ulalume - Wikipedia
- Poe & Whitman
- Benefit Street: Sarah Helen Whitman Residence, Rose Garden, & St. John's Cathedral – Edgar Allan Poe: Rhode Island
- “Ulalume” & The American Whig Review – Edgar Allan Poe
- The Franklin Lyceum – Edgar Allan Poe: Rhode Island
- Sarah Helen and Susan Anna Residence, 140 Power Street – Edgar Allan Poe
- Swan Point Cemetery – Edgar Allan Poe
- “Ultima Thule” – Edgar Allan Poe
- Sarah Helen Whitman – Edgar Allan Poe
- The (Still) Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe | History | Smithsonian Magazine
- Poe Biography - The Poe Museum
- Edgar Allan Poe & Sarah Helen Whitman | curio
- Edgar Allan Poe and His Tumultuous Romances (US National Park Service)
- Edgar Allan Poe on Valentine's Day
- Poe, Lynch, and the Literary Salon Scene
- Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Letters - SH Whitman to EA Poe (early August 1848)
- Works - Letters - EA Poe to SH Whitman (September 5, 1848)
- Works - Letters - SH Whitman to EA Poe (September 27-29, 1848)
- The Last Letters of Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman
- Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Letters - EA Poe to SH Whitman (November 24, 1848)
- Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - People - Mrs. Frances Sargent Osgood
- The Life and Addictions of Edgar Allan Poe
- Death of Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia
- Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia
Virginia Clemm | History of American Women