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Edgar Allan Poe - PoemHunter.com  Edgar Allen Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, ... Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the ... The Allans served as a foster family and gave him the name "Edgar Allan Poe", ... The family, including Poe and Allan's wife, Frances Valentine Allan, sailed to Britain in 1815.
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) - Genealogy - Geni  Dec 8, 2015 ... Genealogy for Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) family tree on Geni, with ... Occupation: Poet, short-story writer, editor, literary critic, Author .... [5] His father abandoned their family in 1810,[6] and his mother died a ... [8] The family, including Poe and Allan's wife, Frances Valentine Allan, sailed to Britain in 1815.
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jeopardy/3191_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  HISTORIC KIDS | In 1815, at age 6, this future writer of scary stories moved to Great Britain with his foster family, the Allans | Edgar Allan Poe. right: Alex. Wrong:.
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Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia  Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of ... Poe died in Baltimore on October 7, 1849, at age 40; the cause of his death is ... The Allans served as a foster family and gave him the name "Edgar Allan Poe", ..... Horror portal  icon...
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Washington Irving - Wikipedia  Washington Irving (April 3, 1783  November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The ... After moving to England for the family business in 1815, he achieved international fame...
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jeopardy/1098_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  CHILDREN'S LITERATURE | This Kenneth Grahame novel began as a series of bedtime tales told to his son starting in 1904 | The Wind In The Willows.
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Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis - Biblio.com  ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON was born in Edinburgh in 1850. ... 'As I pored upon my map of "Treasure Island", the future characters of the book began to appear ...... Colour frontispiece and black-and-white illustrations by Frank Godwin .
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13 True Stories Behind Edgar Allan Poe's Terror Tales - Biography ...  Oct 7, 2015 ... The curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia ... Among the many films featuring Poe as a character are The Raven ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote Poe from England and told him that The Raven has created a .... The second of Poe's detective stories to feature the amateur sleuth...
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Bront family - Wikipedia  The Bronts were a nineteenth-century literary family associated with the village of Thornton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (18161855), Emily (18181848), and Anne ... Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall...
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Bront family - Wikipedia  The Bronts were a nineteenth-century literary family associated with the village of Thornton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (18161855), Emily (18181848), and Anne .... Wuthering Heights was her only novel. ..... One year before her death in May 1849, Anne published a second novel.
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The Publication of Grimm's Fairy Tales | History Today  A landmark in folklore was published on December 20th, 1812. ... The first volume of their Kinder- und Hausmrchen ('Children's and Household ... The brothers took stories from Perrault and many others, but their versions were frequently different. ... Demoted to the family's kitchen maid after her own mother's death and her...
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American Experience | Stephen Foster | Transcript - PBS  He spent his first years on a handsome estate called "The White Cottage." Stephen's mother .... It would become the biggest hit the world had ever known. ... Narrator: "Oh! Susanna" was a windfall for everyone but Foster. His ... Narrator: In the Winter of 1850, Foster -- now 23 -- returned to Pittsburgh to launch his new career.
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Herman Melville  said Allan Melvill, Herman's father when the youngster was 7 years old in ... first to Albany and finally to Pittsfield, Mass. where Allan's brother Thomas ... By the summer of 1834 he was hired as his elder brother's assistant at a cap and fur store. .... Melville was quiet and not heard from again until, posthumously, Billy Budd.
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Just So Stories - Wikipedia  Genre, Children's book. Publisher, Macmillan. Publication date. 1902. The Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best ... A forerunner of these stories is Kipling's "How Fear Came," included in his...
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Start Reading - Penguin  Caitln R. Kiernan, In the Water Works (Birmingham, Alabama 1888). .... painfully younga teenager, in factwhen she first published Frankenstein, ... In Poe, the legend weighs heavily upon his readers. ...... Although not overtly supernatural, The House of the Seven Gables is a powerful rumination on an ancestral curse.
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Stephen Foster - Literary Devices  Stephen attended Athens Academy from 1839 to 1841, where he wrote his first ... Bly, Old Fox at Home, Old Dog Tray, and Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair. ... Hair, My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night, Oh! Susanna, Old Black Joe,...
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Seeks Ghosts: Henry James' The Turn of the Screw  Feb 23, 2014 ... Henry James an American writer who spent most of his career in Britain published this classic story as a novella in 1898. ... She is to take charge of his niece and nephew as their governess. ... Many feel that the fears the governess holds for the children symbolize her own fear of the outside world e.g. sex,...
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The DEFILED SISTER. (Period Books #M-103). RAPE Story by ...  (also Writes Under the Pseudonym's; Alan Payne, Rachel Ann Payne, Jay Scotland & J. X. Williams; Has ghost written as William Ard); ... any condition, by the author of The American Bicentennial Series The Kent Family Chronicles! ... novellas, short story collections, a graphic novel and books from published 1864 to 2011.
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Huxley family - Wikipedia  The Huxley family is a British family of which several members have excelled in science, ... THH's grandsons include Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World and Doors of ... his brother Julian Huxley, evolutionist and first director of UNESCO, and ..... In Bermuda in the 1940s and 1950s he was Solicitor General, Attorney...
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Wuthering Heights Chapters 16-20 Summary and Analysis ...  She found Cathy safe and sound thereHeathcliff wasn't home, and the housekeeper had taken her in chattering to Hareton, now 18 years old. After Ellen...
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Flashman and the Dragon (The Flashman Papers, #8) by George ...  Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays, now with a Victoria ... A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining ..... As much as I love this series, I have to admit that by book 8, The Flashman ... I haven't reviewed ANY of George MacDonald Fraser's work on Goodreads...