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Title: The Home Life of Poe

Author: Susan Archer Weiss

Release Date: October 13, 2010 [EBook #33930]

Language: English

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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