Text: John H. Ingram, “‘Stella’ (S. A. Lewis),” Athenaeum (London, UK), whole no. 2771, December 4, 1880, p. 745, cols. 2-3

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”STELLA “ (S. A. LEWIS).

ANOTHER of Edgar Poe's rapidly diminishing troop of friends has just passed away, and in a shockingly sudden manner. “Stella,” as she desired to be called, the authoress of ‘Sappho, [column 3:] a Tragedy,’ now in its sixth edition, ‘The Records of the Heart,’ the eleventh edition of which work is on the eve of publication, ‘The Child of the Sea,’ ‘The Myths of the Minstrels,’ and several other works in prose and verse, died last Wednesday, the 24th of November, at Bedford Place, W.C. She had been seen in the library of the British Museum on Tuesday, the 23rd, apparently in good health, but arrived home in the evening suffering severely. Medical advice was obtained, but so little was danger apprehended that she was left unattended during the night, and in the morning was found dead in her bed. Her many friends in London have been doubly grieved by the fact that her sudden death should have taken place in the very way which, many years ago, she had fore boded in her poem of ‘The Forsaken’: —

Her funeral took place on Monday, the 29th ult, at Kensal Green Cemetery; there the body will find a temporary resting-place, prior to its removal to Greenwood Cemetery, New York. Mr. Hoppin, Secretary to the United States Legation, was present, as were also several private and literary friends of the deceased, but, owing to no notification of the time and place of interment having been given, many who would have liked to attend were absent.

JOHN H. INGRAM.