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Relationships of Newell, Robert

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Menken, Adah Isaacs (1835-1868)

Allen, Gay Wilson. The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman. New York: MacMillan, 1955. [pages:262]

Henry Newell, editor of the New York Sunday Mercury, "had been attracted by this vivacious woman" and began printing her poetry in early 1860.

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Menken, Adah Isaacs (1835-1868)

Brown, T. Allston. " 3 Vols." A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1903.

In 1862 she married Pfaffian Robert Henry Newell (Orpheus C. Kerr), but the union did not last.