Estelle Anna Lewis

Estelle Anna Lewis
Died	24 November 1880
Occupation	Writer
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Estelle Anna Lewis (née Sarah Anna Robinson; April 1824 – November 24, 1880) was a 19th-century American poet and dramatist. After marriage, she started using pen names, including "Estelle", "Stella", and "Stells".^[1]

She published several volumes of verse. The first volume of poems, chiefly lyric, The records of the Heart, was published by the Appletons in 1844, followed by The Child of the Sea and Other Poems (N. Y. George P. Putnam, 1848), and the Myths of the Minstrel (Appletons, 1852). In 1854, Lewis published in Graham's Magazine a series of critical and biographical essays, entitled “Art and Artists in America." While in Italy, in 1863, she wrote her first tragedy, Helemah; or, The Fall of Montezuma, which she published in New York, during a protracted visit to the United States. The success of this work encouraged her to write Sappho of Lesbos, a tragedy (London, 1868) which reached a seventh edition, was translated into modern Greek and played in Athens. A third tragedy of hers was The King's Stratagem; or, The Pearl of Poland (Trubner & Co., London, 1873). After her return to England, in 1865, an illustrated edition of her Poetical works, which had been published in the U.S. in 1858, was reprinted by H. G. Bohn, London, 1866. Under the name of “Stella" she contributed to U.S. journals piquant letters on travel, literature, and art. Her last work was a series of sonnets in defense of Edgar Allan Poe.^[2]