The Unrest of Youth

The Home Life of Poe

by Susan Archer WEISS (1822 - 1917)

The author of this biography of Poe, Susan Weiss, describes her work as follows: "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." - Summary by Ciufi Galeazzi

Listen next episodes of The Home Life of Poe:
A Morning With Poe and ''The Raven.'' (A Leaf from a Journal.) , ''A Pretty Girl With Auburn Hair Whom Poe Loved'' , After the War , Again in Richmond , At Fordham , Back to New York , In Barracks , In New York , Mrs. Clemm , Mrs. Shelton , Mrs. Shew , Mrs Whitman , Poe and Mrs. Allan , Poe and Mrs. Osgood , Poe's Character , Poe's Double Marriage , Poe's Philadelphia Home , Quiet Life at Fordham , The Closing of the Gate , The Mystery of Fate , The Poes in Richmond , The Real Virginia , The Shadow at the Door , Virginia's Ilness , With Old Friends