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Sarah Hammond Palfrey

American poet and novelist

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ28844039 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sarah Hammond Palfrey (December 11, 1823 – 1914) was an American novelist and poet who used the pseudonym. E. Foxton. She was born in Boston to John Gorham Foxton, a Unitarian minister, and Mary Ann née Hammond Palfrey. She lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Some of her letters survive.

Writings

Harvest-home

Old times and new

Novels

Herman, or Young Knighthood Volume I and II, Lee and Shepard, Boston 1865

Agnes Wentworth

Katherine Morne

Poetry

Prémices

Sir Pavon and St.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sarah Hammond Palfrey” as american poet and novelist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1823, 1914, 1865—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1823. The account is most persuasive where Sarah, Hammond and Palfrey can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american poet and novelist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q28844039. VIAF identifies the subject as 38577740. The Library of Congress control number is n92122330. None of the 5 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1823, 1914 and 1865.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sarah Hammond Palfrey” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.