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Sarah Elmira Shelton (née Royster; 1810 – February 11, 1888) was an adolescent sweetheart of Edgar Allan Poe who became engaged to him shortly before his death in 1849. Their early relationship, begun when she was 15, ended due to the interference of her father while Poe was studying at the University of Virginia .
- Poe's Relationship with Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton
- Poe's Relationship with Sarah Helen Whitman
- Poe's Relationship with Nancy Richmond
- A Commitment to Poe's Legacy
The first woman to do so was Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, rumored to have been his fiancée at the time of his death. Poe had known Shelton since childhood, when they were neighbors and first took a romantic interest in each other. They fell out of contact when Poe left for University of Virginia and Shelton married another man. They did not speak ...
Elmira Shelton was not the only woman who connected herself more closely to Poe after his death. Before Shelton, Poe had had a fiancée named Sarah Helen Whitman. Poe met Whitman in 1848, almost a year before he reconnected with Shelton. Whitman was also a poet and the two traded passionate poems and letters. Poe pursued Helen Whitman relentlessly b...
Poe mentioned the failed engagement in a letter to Nancy Richmond, the wife of a paper manufacturer in Massachusetts. Richmond met Edgar Allan Poe in July 1848 when he lectured in Lowell. Although their relationship remained platonic, Richmond and Poe experienced a mutual attraction. Poe called Richmond by the name of “Annie” and wrote his “For Ann...
Elmira Shelton, Helen Whitman, and Nancy Richmond shared a commitment to Poe’s legacy. Whether this involvement stemmed from a desire to be involved in the drama, a conviction to protect Poe’s reputation, or a love for him that strengthened after his tragic death, or all three, it is difficult to tell. But, we have these women to thank for some of ...
Sep 4, 2012 · This October, the Poe Museum, which was instrumental in marking the grave of Poe’s mother and in placing a plaque on the grave of Poe’s first love, Jane Stanard, will finally mark the grave of Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton in Richmond’s Shockoe Hill Cemetery. You are invited to attend the historic unveiling on Saturday, October 7, 2012 at ...
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Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton is the subject of this hand-colored daguerreotype portrait made in the 1850s. Shelton (née Royster) was engaged to Edgar Allan Poe on two different occasions. The first engagement was in 1826, when Poe was a seventeen-year-old student at the University of Virginia. Royster's family opposed the match, and the ...
Sarah Elmira Shelton was an adolescent sweetheart of Edgar Allan Poe who became engaged to him shortly before his death in 1849. Introduction Sarah Elmira Shelton Biography Second relationship with Poe Later life
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we thought the Poe Museum’s Object of the Month for February should be a memento of Poe’s “first and last love.”. Shelton’s CDV of Poe. Edgar Allan Poe was a distasteful subject in Elmira Royster Shelton’s home. In fact, her daughter forbade her to mention his name in her presence.
Elmira Royster Shelton. Elmira was Edgar Allan Poe’s first and last fiancé. They were first engaged when Poe left for the University of Virginia, but Elmira’s father encouraged her to marry a wealthier man. Decades later, Poe and Elmira rekindled their romance when he was 40 and she, 39.
