Sarah Dana (Loring) Greenough (1827-1885)
Mrs Sarah Dana (Loring) Greenough; Novelist, of Rome, Italy
He memorial sculpted by her husband in Rome declared her to be a, "Member of the Society of ARCADIA, and of the Royal Academy of SAINT CECILIA". Her novel Lilian (1863) is about an American couple in Rome, inspired by her own experience and by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun. Her collection Arabesques: Monarè, Apollyona, Domitia, Ornbra (1871), illustrated by her son, consists of four fantasy stories involving knights, witches, a werewolf, and Roman gods. She also wrote Treason at Home: A Novel (1865); In Extremis: the Story of a Broken Law (1872); Mary Magdalene: a Poem (1880); and, Mary Magdalene, and other Poems (1886). She had two children.
