Lovecraft Family

His Father

Winfield Scott Lovecraft

In the early 1870s he worked for the James Cunningham, Son & Company carriage factory as a blacksmith. His whereabouts from 1874 to 1889 are not clear, although it has been suggested that he worked in New York City for his cousin, Frederick. In 1889 he began working as a traveling salesman for Providence’s Gorham & Company. He married Sarah Susan Phillips on 12 June 1889 at St. Paul’s in Boston. In 1893 he began having hallucinations while in Chicago on business, and on 25 April he was admitted to Butler Hospital in Providence, diagnosed as having “general paresis” – the tertiary stage of neurosyphilis.

His Mother

Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft

Born in Foster, Providence, Rhode Island, USA on 1857 to Whipple Van Buren Phillips and Robie Alzada Place. Sarah Susan married Winfield Scott Lovecraft and had a child. She passed away on 1921 in Massachusetts, USA.

His Grandfather

Whipple Van Buren Phillips

He was probably the biggest influence in Lovecraft's writing, he encouraged him to write and Whipple read to his grandson classic books from the beginning. When Whipple died Lovecraft was in a emotional breakdown. His grandfather died in March 1904.

His Aunts

Lillian Delora Phillips and Annie Emeline Phillips

They were Lovecraft's aunts there isn't a lot of information about them, but they were present in Lovecraft's life after all. Lillian died in July 1932 and Annie died in January 1941.

His Wife

Sonia Haft Greene Lovecraft Davis (16 March 1883, Ichnia - 26 December 1972) was a one-time pulp fiction writer and amateur publisher, a single mother and business woman. She is perhaps best known for being president of the United Amateur Press Association, and her two-year marriage to American weird fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft.