Edgar Allan Poe

ES loved Christina Rossetti from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein . As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho . . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti and...

Carter attributes the idea for Love to Benjamin Constant 's nineteenth-century novel Adolphe. Linden Peach also notes intertextual references to Edgar Allan Poe 's poem Annabel Lee, and Nathaniel Hawthorne 's novel The Scarlet Letter.

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...

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, destroyed...

Sarah Lewis and her husband began their relationship with Edgar Allan Poe and his family.

Their marriage is presumed to have been childless. 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...

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...

By this time her reading at home, which was always eclectic depending on what was available, was dominated by an ten-volume edition of Edgar Allan Poe .

Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare , she wrote later, was my first white love. She also enjoyed and respected...