Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Homes and haunts
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[Illustration: EDGAR ALLAN POE
[REPRODUCED FROM A PHOTO GIVEN TO MRS. WEISS BY POE THREE DAYS BEFORE
HE LEFT RICHMOND]]
THE HOME LIFE OF POE
BY SUSAN ARCHER WEISS
BROADWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY NEW YORK 1907
_Title Page by Wm. Lincoln Hudson · Cover by Stephen G. Clow_
Copyright, 1907,
BY
SUSAN ARCHER WEISS.
All rights reserved.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. PAGE.
First Glimpse of Edgar Poe 1
CHAPTER II.
Poe's First Home 9
CHAPTER III.
The Allan Home 13
CHAPTER IV.
Poe's Boyhood 20
CHAPTER V.
Schoolboy Love Affairs 36
CHAPTER VI.
Rosalie Poe 41
CHAPTER VII.
The Unrest of Youth 44
CHAPTER VIII.
In Barracks 52
CHAPTER IX.
Poe and Mrs. Allan 57
CHAPTER X.
The Closing of the Gate 61
CHAPTER XI.
Mrs. Clemm 64
CHAPTER XII.
A Pretty Girl with Auburn Hair Whom Poe Loved 70
CHAPTER XIII.
Poe's Double Marriage 74
CHAPTER XIV.
The Poes in Richmond 82
CHAPTER XV.
In New York 88
CHAPTER XVI.
The Real Virginia 90
CHAPTER XVII.
Poe's Philadelphia Home 94
CHAPTER XVIII.
Virginia's Illness 102
CHAPTER XIX.
Back to New York 108
CHAPTER XX.
Poe and Mrs. Osgood 119
CHAPTER XXI.
At Fordham 127
CHAPTER XXII.
The Shadow at the Door 137
CHAPTER XXIII.
Mrs. Shew 145
CHAPTER XXIV.
Quiet Life at Fordham 148
CHAPTER XXV.
With Old Friends 154
CHAPTER XXVI.
Mrs. Whitman 169
CHAPTER XXVII.
Again in Richmond 179
CHAPTER XXVIII.
A Morning with Poe--"The Raven" 184
CHAPTER XXIX.
Mrs. Shelton 194
CHAPTER XXX.
The Mystery of Fate 203
CHAPTER XXXI.
After the War 212
CHAPTER XXXII.
Poe's Character 219
Appendix 227
TO THE READER.
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