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Richard Penn Smith












(Born: March 13, 1799 - Died: August 12, 1854)

American playwright and novelist.


Richard Penn Smith















Criticism (Texts and Variant Texts)
  • Notice from "Autography"
    • "R. Penn Smith" ("An Appendix of Autographs") — January 1842 — Graham's Magazine










Bibliography:
  • Anonymous, "Biography of Richard Penn Smith," Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, September 1839, 5:120-121  (with a portrait, engraved by John Sartain)
  • Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., "Richard Penn Smith," Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:382
  • 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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