Urban crime was an area of acute interest in the nineteenth century in America and Europe because the public feared that it was rampant and out of the control of
Tag: Poe Museum of Richmond
Poe’s Balloon Hoax Yields Diamonds in the Sky – Part II of II
As I noted in Part I of this column, J. Harris was one of the many researchers who connected Locke’s “Moon Hoax” with Poe’s April 1844 New York Sun columns on
Remembering the Positively Poe Conference at the University of Virginia
I first published this article on the Edgar Allan Poe Museum Website (www.poemuseum.org) on 7/28/2016. It is being republished here on Litchatte.com with the permission of the Museum In 1818,
My Walk Up Poe’s Stairs: Discovering His Eureka!
This article was originally written by Murray Ellison and published on the Edgar Allan Poe Museum of Richmond’s Website (www.poemuseum.org). Stairs in Poe’s Childhood Home On a cold, but sunny
Learning About Life and French with Dr. Lydia Aiken-Wilson
Dr. Lydia Aiken-Wilson states, at the beginning of her Intermediate French class, that she wants her students to translate, from English to French, the African proverb “An old person dying