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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Estelle Anna Robinson Lewis (1824–1880)

Lewis, Estelle Anna Blanche Robinson. An American dramatist; born near Baltimore, MD, April 1824; died in London, Nov. 24, 1880. While a schoolgirl she translated the ‘Æneid’ into English verse; wrote ‘Forsaken’; and published ‘Records of the Heart’ (1844), and ‘Hebémah, or the Fall of Montezuma’ (1864). Her best dramatic work, ‘Sappho of Lesbos,’ a tragedy, ran through seven editions, and was translated into modern Greek and played at Athens. Edgar A. Poe spoke of her as the rival of Sappho; Lamartine called her the “female Petrarch.”