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Miss Eliza Leslie











(Born: November 16, 1787 - Died: January 2, 1858)

American editor and author. She edited several of the annual issues of The Gift, and selected Poe's tale "MS. Found in a Bottle" for The Gift for 1836, a choice which puzzled Poe as it had already been printed in the Baltimore Saturday Visiter. She never married.
Miss Eliza Leslie














Criticism (Texts and Variant Texts)
  • Notice from "Autography"
    • "Miss Leslie" ("Autography" - part I) — February 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger
    • "Eliza Leslie" ("A Chapter on Autography" - part I) — November 1841 — Graham's Magazine








Bibliography:
  • Coultrap-McQuin, Susan, "Eliza Leslie," American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present, ed. Lina Mainiero, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1970, 2:558-561

  • Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., "Eliza Leslie," Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:87-89
  • 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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