The World of Edgar Allan Poe

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

Aside from some self-serving, self-glorifying, and arguably dishonest reminiscences of her acquaintance with Edgar Allan Poe that appeared i...

"I may say, however, that Griswold's biography of Poe was (not to mince words) a malicious libel, that he knew this when he printed...

Deposited in Providence R.I.'s Brown University is a very intriguing letter written by Frances S. Osgood to her mother, Mary Ingersoll L...

"Eddie finished Virginia's education himself, and, I assure you, she was highly cultivated. She was an excellent linguist, and a p...

Providence, RI poetess Sarah Helen Whitman was an ether-sniffing eccentric who had a strange, unhappy relationship with Edgar Allan Poe dur...

In March of 1849, Poe republished his 1846 Valentine poem to Frances Osgood. He rewrote the poem--an acrostic containing her name--correcti...

Ferdinand: Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young. Bosola: I think not so; her infelicity seem'd to have years too many. -...