Sarah Dana Greenough

Sarah Dana Loring Greenough (February 19, 1827 – August 9, 1885)[1] was an American novelist.

[2] Her novel Lilian (1863) is about an American couple in Rome, inspired by her own experience and by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun.

[3] 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.

[3][4] Sarah Dana Greenough died on August 9, 1885 in Františkovy Lázně.

[1] Her husband sculpted a monument to her, Psyche Divesting Herself of Mortality, which is in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.