Harriet Winslow Sewall

Harriet Winslow Sewall (June 20, 1819 in Portland, Maine – April 19, 1889) was an American poet, and editor of the collected letters of Lydia Maria Child.

Biography Winslow was born in Portland, Maine, June 20, 1819 into a Quaker family, where she was educated at a boarding school in Providence, Rhode Island. She was, at least in her early years, interested in transcendentalism and animal magnetism; and arguably more practically engaged with contemporary anti-slave and women's rights movements.

She wrote poetry from an early age, and for many years; but apparently for her own satisfaction and without a view to publication. A number of her works were published, however, and has been republished in a number of collections of American poetry. she arranged for publication the letters of her friend, the author Lydia Maria Child.

Mr. Sewall died in December 1888 at age 89. She died in the following April, being struck by a train whilst crossing the Boston and Albany Railroad.

A collection of her poems was published in November 1889.