Sarah Dana Loring Greenough (February 19, 1827 – August 9, 1885)[1] was an American novelist.
Sarah Dana Greenough | |
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| Born | February 19, 1827  Boston |
| Died | August 9, 1885 (aged 58) Františkovy Lázně |
| Resting place | Protestant Cemetery, Rome |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse(s) | Richard Saltonstall Greenough |
| Children | Nina Greenough, Gordon Greenough |
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Sarah Dana Loring was born on February 19, 1827 in Boston.[1] She was the daughter of William Joseph Loring (1795-1841) and Anna Thorndike Loring (1804-1872). In 1846, she married sculptor Richard Saltonstall Greenough. They had two children, Anna Loring "Nina" Greenough (1847-1897), and artist Richard Gordon Greenough (1851-1885). They lived in both American and Europe, particularly Rome.[2]
Her novel Lilian (1863) is about an American couple in Rome, inspired by her own experience and by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun.[3] Her collection Arabesques: Monarè, Apollyona, Domitia, Ornbra (1871), illustrated by her son, consists of four fantasy stories involving knights, witches, a werewolf, and Roman gods.[3][4]
Sarah Dana Greenough died on 9 August 1885 in Františkovy Lázně.[1] Her husband sculpted a monument to her, Psyche Divesting Herself of Mortality, which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.[3]
Bibliography
edit- Lilian. London, 1863.[5]
- Treason at Home: A Novel. 3 vol. London: T. C. Newby, 1865.[6]
- Arabesques : Monarè, Apollyona, Domitia, Ornbra: Four Stories of the Supernatural, Boston, 1871, sq. 16mo.[7]
- In Extremis: the Story of a Broken Law, Boston, 1872, sq. 16mo. [7]
- Mary Magdalene: a Poem, Boston,, 1880, 12ino. [7]
- Mary Magdalene, and other Poems, Boston,. 1886, 16mo.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Sarah Dana Greenough (1827–1885)". The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. . 1917. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
- ^ Anderson, Douglas A. (2021-09-12). "Lesser-Known Writers: Mrs. Richard S. Greenough". Lesser-Known Writers. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
- ^ a b c Wright, Nathalia (1965). American novelists in Italy : the discoverers ; Allston to James. Internet Archive. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Bleiler, Everett Franklin (1983). The guide to supernatural fiction. Internet Archive. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press.
- ^ Loeber, Rolf (2006). A guide to Irish fiction, 1650-1900. Internet Archive. Dublin ; Portland, Or. : Four Courts. ISBN 978-1-85182-940-8.
- ^ "Author: Sarah Dana Greenough". www.victorianresearch.org. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
- ^ a b c d Kirk, John Foster; Allibone, Samuel Austin (1902). A supplement to Allibone's Critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors : containing over thirty-seven thousand articles (authors), and enumerating over ninety-three thousand titles. Robarts - University of Toronto. Philadelphia : Lippincott.