The World of Edgar Allan Poe

"What chance--what one event brought this evil thing to pass, bear with me while I relate." -"William Wilson" It is well...

The Lewis divorce was also notable for a cameo appearance by none other than Elizabeth F. Ellet, in the role of espionage agent. According ...

"'The fact is, we have all been a good deal puzzled because the affair is so simple, and yet baffles us altogether.' 'Perha...

Elizabeth Oakes Smith may have been a successful poet, magazinist, lecturer and essayist, but where Edgar Allan Poe was concerned, she is be...

...or, The Case of the Brother Who Didn't Bark. When Edgar Allan Poe sued the "New York Mirror" for libel in 1846, one of the ...

The evidence we have that, after they permanently parted ways at the beginning of 1846, Edgar Allan Poe entertained friendly personal, as ap...

I wanted to elaborate a bit on my earlier post about Hiram Fuller. Fuller published a number of acerbic comments about Edgar Allan Poe'...

"And if, in one, or perhaps two, insulated cases, the spirit of severe truth, sustained by an unconquerable will, was not to be put dow...

The little evidence left to us does indicate that, sometime late in January of 1846, there was a dispute involving Edgar Allan Poe and lette...

One of the landmark events in Edgar Poe's life--the famous January 1846 "letters scandal" involving Elizabeth F. Ellet and Fra...

On January 2, 1846, Cornelia Walter, editor of the "Boston Transcript" (who had been conducting a public feud with Poe for several...