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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Julia Ward Howe
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.
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Timeline
9 October 1849: Rufus Griswold (later editor and publicist...
Writing climate item
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.