Edgar Allan Poe

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...

The volume reproduces in facsimile no fewer than sixteen drafts of one of EB 's best-known poems, One Art; Quinn's notes include snippets of rejection letters from the New Yorker. The passages...

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...

LC issued further biographies of eminent Victorians designed for young people: The Young Florence Nightingale, 1960, The Young Victoria, 1961, The Young Edgar Allan Poe, 1964, and A Hand Upon the Time...

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...

The AmericanSarah Lewis published her second volume of poetry, Child of the Sea and Other Poems, which was heavily promoted by 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.

As Elizabeth Jenkins told it, this began as an idea for a reportage novel illuminating the secrets of some particular métier. Jenkins hoped for something of morbid decadence reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe , but...

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...