Edgar Allan Poe

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.

The year after Records of the Heart appeared, SL and her husband became acquainted with Edgar Allan Poe . Facing poverty and illness, Poe reportedly welcomed their kindness, friendship, and most importantly, their generosity. In...

Perhaps in part owing to Poe 's praise, Records of the Heart was in its eleventh edition by the time of SL 's death.

According to John H. Ingram , Poe was presented with the manuscript before its publication. At the same time he received $100 from the Lewises, which he badly needed, and which seems to have been...

Poe 's complex involvement in SL 's writing career played a significant role in the development of her literary reputation. According to The Poe Log, around May 1849 she asked Poe to compose an...

Poe continued to be involved with SL 's poetry until his death in 1849. For example, he returned her poem The Prisoner of Perotè to her with a message: I think this the most spirited...

SL seems to have turned from poetry to drama after Poe 's death and her own divorce.

Here Lawrence discusses such authors as Fenimore Cooper , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Herman Melville , and Edgar Allan Poe .

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. The...

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...

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...

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...

Here Goudge appears in eclectic company: with, among others, Joan Aiken , Stephen King , and Edgar Allan Poe .

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. She reviewed works by...

DDM was fascinated by the history of Menabilly House, especially the story about workmen in the nineteenth century discovering a skeleton bricked up behind a wall—a tale calling to mind Poe 's short story...