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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 90
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.
In considering this book, will the reader especially note that it is not a "Life" or a "Biography" of Poe, of which too many already exist and to which nothing can be added after the exhaustive works of Woodbury and Prof. Harrison. I have not treated Poe in his character of poet or author, but confined myself to his private home-life, domestic and social, as I have heard it described by Poe's most intimate friends who knew him from infancy—some of them my own relatives—and from my own brief knowledge of him in the last three months of his life. The book may therefore be considered as a supplement to the more complete "Lives and Biographies," showing Poe in a character as yet wholly unknown to the public, but which should be known in order to enable us to form a correct judgment of his character. I have corrected various misstatements of writers which, repeated by one from another, have come to be received as truth.
I have made no attempt at producing an artistic work, but have treated the subject as it demands, in a plain and practical manner with regard to facts apart from idealism of any kind.
The Author.