Sarah Morewood, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sarah Morewood

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1823

Place of Birth: Passaic, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 16-Oct-1863

Profession: literary historian

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Sarah Morewood (1823–1863) was a poet and literary figure who developed a close relationship in the 1850s with her nearest neighbor in the Berkshires, the novelist Herman Melville.
In 1983 Professor Michael Rogin of the University of California, Berkeley, was the first to suggest that Morewood was a model for the character of Isabel in Melville's dark novel of romance and ambition Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (1852).
Thirty-three years later biographer Michael Shelden argued in Melville in Love (2016) that Morewood influenced Melville's work not only in Pierre, but also in Moby-Dick (1851), and that for much of the 1850s the two were lovers.