At age sixteen, JWH
's mother, born Julia Rush Cutler
, was sent to live at a boarding house in New York, not an uncommon living arrangement for young, unmarried women at the time.
Tharp, Louise Hall. Three Saints and a Sinner. Little, Brown and Co., 1956.
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Literary responses
Sarah Lewis
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...
Timeline
9 October 1849
Rufus Griswold
(later editor and publicist of Edgar Allan Poe
) published Poe's now-famous poemAnnabel Lee in the New York Daily Tribune in an obituary two days after the author's mysterious death.
