The Home Life of Poe

The Home Life of Poe
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Susan Archer Talley Weiss. The Home Life of Poe

TO THE READER

CHAPTER I. FIRST GLIMPSE OF EDGAR POE

CHAPTER II. POE'S FIRST HOME

CHAPTER III. THE ALLAN HOME

CHAPTER IV. POE'S BOYHOOD

CHAPTER V. SCHOOLBOY LOVE AFFAIRS

CHAPTER VI. ROSALIE POE

CHAPTER VII. THE UNREST OF YOUTH

CHAPTER VIII. IN BARRACKS

CHAPTER IX. POE AND MRS. ALLAN

CHAPTER X. THE CLOSING OF THE GATE

CHAPTER XI. MRS. CLEMM

CHAPTER XII "A PRETTY GIRL WITH AUBURN HAIR WHOM POE LOVED."

CHAPTER XIII. POE'S DOUBLE MARRIAGE

CHAPTER XIV. THE POES IN RICHMOND

CHAPTER XV. IN NEW YORK

CHAPTER XVI. THE REAL VIRGINIA

CHAPTER XVII. POE'S PHILADELPHIA HOME

CHAPTER XVIII. VIRGINIA's ILLNESS

CHAPTER XIX. BACK TO NEW YORK

CHAPTER XX. POE AND MRS. OSGOOD

CHAPTER XXI. AT FORDHAM

CHAPTER XXII. THE SHADOW AT THE DOOR

CHAPTER XXIII. MRS. SHEW

CHAPTER XXIV. QUIET LIFE AT FORDHAM

CHAPTER XXV. WITH OLD FRIENDS

CHAPTER XXVI. MRS. WHITMAN

CHAPTER XXVII. AGAIN IN RICHMOND

CHAPTER XXVIII. A MORNING WITH POE AND "THE RAVEN."

CHAPTER XXIX. MRS. SHELTON

CHAPTER XXX. THE MYSTERY OF FATE

CHAPTER XXXI. AFTER THE WAR

CHAPTER XXXII. POE'S CHARACTER

APPENDIX

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It may be regarded as a somewhat curious coincidence that the first glimpse afforded us of Edgar Poe is on the authority of my own mother.

This is the story, as she told it to me:

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"Poe was one of our brightest pupils. He read and scanned the Latin poets with ease when scarcely thirteen years of age. He was an apt student and always recited well, with a great ambition to excel in everything.

"Despite his retiring disposition he was never lacking in courage. There was not a pluckier boy in school. He never provoked a quarrel, but would always stand up for his rights.... It was a noticeable fact that he never asked any of his schoolmates to go home with him after school. The boys would frequently on Fridays take dinner or spend the night with each other at their homes, but Poe was never known to enter in this social intercourse. After he left the school ground we saw no more of him until next day."

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