Mrs. Marguerite St. Leon Loud


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Mrs. Marguerite St. Leon Loud

Mrs. Marguerite St. Leon Loud

(Born: April 17, 1800? - Died: November 4, 1889)

Minor American poet. Marguerite St. Leon Barstow was born in Wysox, PA. In 1824, she married John Loud, a prominent Philadelphia manufacturer of pianos. Poe was to have edited her only collection of poetry, Wayside Flowers (1851), but he died in Baltimore on his way to Philadelphia. The book, Wayside Flowers (Boston, 1851), was instead edited by Park Benjamin. She died in Kenyon, Minnesota, and is buried there. Her tombstone in Kenyon Cemetery gives the year of her birth as 1812, but that would mean that she was only 12 when she married, if the 1824 date is accurate. Although several sources give the year of her marriage as 1824, one source says it was November 17, 1833, and that was apparently the year that John Loud returned to Philadelphia. Their first child, Caroline M. St. Loud, was born in 1834, so the 1833 date for the marriage may be correct.

 

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  • Notice from “Autography”
    • M. St. Leon Loud” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part II) — December 1841 — Graham’s Magazine

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  • Barry, John Stetson, A Historical Sketch of the Town of Hanover, Mass., with Family Geneologies, Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1853, p. 235
  • 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.
  • Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds., Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889, 4:33

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