Showing posts with label Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton. Show all posts
Monday, May 2, 2011

My Interview With Edgar

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"The mysteries of his [Poe's] life were never revealed to anyone, but his intimates well understood that to mystify his hearer was...
Monday, March 28, 2011

The Name of Annabel Lee (Part One of Two)

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"It was many and many a year ago In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee......
Monday, January 17, 2011

The Reticent Mrs. Shelton (Part Two)

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"The more meticulously we scrutinize the documents, the more painfully do we become aware how dubious is the authenticity of historical...
Monday, January 10, 2011

The Reticent Mrs. Shelton (Part One of Two)

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"In biography the truth is everything, and in auto-biography it is especially so." -"The Business Man" In 1874, a Richmo...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Poe and Dumas; Or, the Forgery That Dare Not Speak Its Name

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In 1929, a well-known rare book dealer named Gabriel Wells presented the world with an amazing footnote to history. He announced that durin...
Monday, April 26, 2010

More on the Amazing Susan Weiss

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On this blog, I have often referred to Susan Archer Talley Weiss, that prolific and pathological liar. It is hard, however, to describe her...
Thursday, October 1, 2009

Poe's Weird Women (Part One) - Sarah Elmira Shelton

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Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, known to history for reputedly being twice engaged to Edgar Allan Poe, is among the more mysterious figures in...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Nota Bene

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In 1827, a young writer named Lambert A. Wilmer published in Baltimore a verse drama entitled "Merlin." It was a commonplace sund...