Edgar Allan Poe

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Standard Name: Poe, Edgar Allan
Head-and-shoulders daguerrotype of Edgar Allan Poe, probably taken in June 1849. He looks straight at the viewer with a slightly apprehensive expression, wearing a jacket and large cravat.

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Material Conditions of Writing Sarah Lewis
SL seems to have turned from poetry to drama after Poe 's death and her own divorce.
Friends, Associates Sarah Lewis
Sarah Lewis and her husband began their relationship with Edgar Allan Poe and his family.
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.
13: 571
Textual Production Sarah Lewis
The AmericanSarah Lewis published her second volume of poetry, Child of the Sea and Other Poems, which was heavily promoted by Edgar Allan Poe .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Author summary Sarah Lewis
Sarah Anna Lewis was a mid-nineteenth-century American poet who is today better known for her association with Edgar Allan Poe than for her writings. She began her career with frequent periodical publications, then published four...
names Sarah Lewis
  • BirthName: Sarah Anna Robinson
    Some sources add a third given name, Blanche.

  • Nickname: Sarah Delmonte Lewis
    Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.
    13: 570
    Kunitz, Stanley J., and Howard Haycraft, editors. American Authors, 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature. H. W. Wilson, 1938.
    466
    Scholars are divided as to whether her birthname was Estelle or Sarah. Edgar Allan Poe 's...
Family and Intimate relationships Sarah Lewis
Their marriage is presumed to have been childless.
Garraty, John A., and Mark C. Carnes, editors. American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999, 24 vols.
13: 570
Sylvanus D. Lewis offered advice to Edgar Allan Poe while Poe was being sued for libel. He died in 1882, twenty-four years after separating from...
Friends, Associates Sarah Lewis
Following Poe 's death, Maria Clemm continued frequently to visit SL , who eventually began to tire of her. Clemm apparently, because of her jealous desire to have Poe as exclusively her own,
Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance. Harper Collins, 1991.
443
destroyed...
Textual Production Sarah Lewis
SL began her writing career with contributions to The Family Magazine. Her first publication was said to be a poem which appeared around 1838, when she was just fourteen years old.
Mainiero, Lina, editor. American Women Writers. Vol. II, Unger, 1979, 5 vols.
2: 572
Walsh, Thomas. “Stella and Her Brooklyn Salon”. The Bookman, Vol.
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, No. 5, Jan. 1923, pp. 578-83.
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Textual Features D. H. Lawrence
Here Lawrence discusses such authors as Fenimore Cooper , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Herman Melville , and Edgar Allan Poe .
Literary responses Fanny Kemble
The book quickly became a best-seller, but elicited negative reviews.Edgar Allan Poe spoke against the young female narrator for exhibiting too much self-confidence, but conceded that the writing had vivacity of style.
qtd. in
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
84
The...
Occupation Richard Hengist Horne
Educated at Sandhurst , RHH started writing and editing in his thirties after a spell in the Mexican navy. His verse was praised by Thomas Carlyle and Edgar Allan Poe . He also adapted plays...
Education Patricia Highsmith
PH went to various schools. She was removed from her first NewYork public school because her grandmother objected to her making friends with black children. Then came a small and select private school which she...
Textual Features Sarah Josepha Hale
Editorial policy was to avoid anything controversial in mainstream politics. The magazine never mentioned the Civil War during the course of the conflict. In contrast to the Ladies' Magazine, the new one had a...
Textual Production Elizabeth Goudge
Here Goudge appears in eclectic company: with, among others, Joan Aiken , Stephen King , and Edgar Allan Poe .
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Fuller
In her review Miss Barrett 's Poems she praised the English poet's majesty and her poetic vision but noted also her lack of economy and the stiffness of her verse.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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