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George G. Foster











(Born: ca. 1815 - Died: April 16, 1856)

American journalist, known as "Gaslight Foster." He moved to New York City in 1842. He died in Philadelphia, where his passing was announced in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin on April 16, 1856 as having occured "suddenly in this city this morning. His disease, we believe, was congestion of the brain."














Criticism (Texts and Variant Texts)
  • Notice from "Autography"
    • "G. G. Foster" ("A Chapter on Autography" - part II) — December 1841 — Graham's Magazine








Bibliography:
  • Anonynous, "Death of G. G. Foster," New York Times, April 17, 1856

  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
  • Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.





 
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