Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - People

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Sections: Biography Criticism Bibliography

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(Born: June 12, 1807 - Died: February 7, 1886)

American lawyer, author and engineer. He was born in Dinwidde Co., VA, the son of William French and Maria Brooke Duval. He attended the University of Virginia in 1826, having been at William and Mary College the previous year. He married Laura J. George on June 6, 1850, and they had seven children. As a lawyer, he represented Nat Turner, the leader of a slave rebellion in 1831, as noted in official records of the time. In 1885, he purchased and remodeled the Exchange Hotel, in Gordonsville, VA. French is buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Gordonsville, VA.

Criticism:

Review of Elkswatawa — August 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger
Notice from “Autography”
- “J. S. French” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part II) — December 1841 — Graham’s Magazine

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Bibliography:

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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