The World of Edgar Allan Poe

"[M]y extremely delicate health...and all too sensitive heart, with an irrepressible--shall I call it Genius? --struggling for recogn...

4. Frances Sargent Locke Osgood In Osgood's case, it has not been suggested that she herself was the inspiration for "Annabel Lee,...

In his recent book, "Poe in His Own Time," Benjamin F. Fisher made reference to Elizabeth Oakes Smith's copious writings about...

4. Mrs. Clemm's fourth and final affront against the sensibilities of the biographers is the fact that she allowed Rufus W. Griswold to...

The most detailed descriptions we have of Poe's three visits to Lowell, Massachusetts in 1848 and 1849 come from a handful of contempora...

In analyzing the relationship between Edgar Allan Poe and "Annie" Richmond, one little-known, but interesting fact stands out: Am...

"Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges...

Nancy Locke Heywood Richmond was the wife of Charles Richmond, a wealthy businessman in Lowell, MA. She is known to us through her accounts...