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...

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

Remembered largely for his poetry, whose early publication provoked a major crisis in censorship, CB also wrote important prose, especially criticism, and translated Edgar Allan Poe 's stories into French. As a literary and art...

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...

Impelled to write about his maritime adventures, he published Typee in 1846, and its sequel Omoo in 1847. Both of these first books were popular but Moby Dick (first published in England on 18 October...

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...

Throughout her career LHS was prolific in magazine publication: many of her volumes of poetry consist largely of pieces reprinted from periodicals.Louis Godey paid an annual $500 for the privilege of attaching her...

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

Harriet Martineau was amazed when AM first read her one of these tales, The Admiral's Daughter, and felt that their hostess later that evening (Sarah Wedgwood ) must have been almost equally amazed...

This book was awarded the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award (named after Edgar Allan Poe ) and stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for eight months.

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...

This novel received excellent reviews and in early 1920 reached the short-list of three English submissions for the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse, which however went in the end to Cicely Hamilton . In The Observer...

She achieves this in Bits of Gossip in a series of scattered remembrances of my own generation which included vivid portraits of some of the most prominent men and women of the American nineteenth century...

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...