Text-01 — “The Mystery of Marie Roget” — 1842, no original manuscript or fragments are
known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02) — (The tale was written for TGAPP, and is listed in
Poe’s handwritten table of contents, but the text itself no longer survives. In need of money, Poe sold the tale to the
editors of Snowden’s Ladies’ Companion and crossed the title off the list of contents.)
Text-02 — “The Mystery of Marie Roget” — 1842-1843 — Ladies’
Companion — (Mabbott text A)
Text-03 — “The Mystery of Marie Roget” — 1843-1845 — (a presumed revised version
of text-02, in anticipation of the new edition in Tales. This version may have been made on pages of a copy of Snowden’
Ladies’s Companion or may have been a new manuscript. No copy of either has survived, but the revisions are
presumably reflected in text-04.)
Text-04 — “The Mystery of Marie Roget” — 1845 —
TALES — (Mabbott text B) (For Griswold’s 1850 reprinting of this text, see the entry
below, under reprints.)
Text-05 — “The Mystery of Marie Roget” — 1849 —
TALES-JLG — manuscript revisions in “J. L. Graham” copy of TALES — (Mabbott
text C) (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)
Reprints:
“The Mystery of Marie Roget” — 1850 —
WORKS — (Griswold reprints from the stereotype plates of Text-04) (Mabbott text D)
“The Mystery of Marie Roget” — 1852 — Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Humour;
and Poems, London: Henry Vizetelly (An undated edition appears about the same time, published by Charles H. Clark and Samuel
Orchart Beeton, and their name appears as publisher for the second series), first series pp. 122-174. (with 3 woodcut illustrations)
“The Mystery of Marie Roget” — 1867 — Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, first
series (New York: W. J. Widdleton), pp. 213-261 (This collection is extracted from the 1850-1856 edition of Poe’s
Works. It was reprinted several times.)
“The Mystery of Marie Roget” — 1874
— Works of Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram, vol. 1, pp. 442-493 (This collection was subsequently reprinted in
various forms)
“The Mystery of Marie Roget” — April 6, 1911 — Kansas City Star (p. 5) (this item
is noted by George Monteiro, “Fugitive Reprints,” E. A. Poe Review, Fall 2010, p. 162.)
Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:
“The Mystery of Marie Roget” — 1894-1895
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales, eds. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and Kimball
(3:99-165)
The Mystery of Marie Roget — 1899 — New York: R. F. Fenno & Co. (includes
“historical and criticial commentary” by Henry Austin)
“The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” —
1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 5: Tales IV, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (5:1-66,
and 5:313-316)
“The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” —
1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales & Sketches II, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press (3:715-788)
“The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales,
Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. 506-554
“Le mystère de marie Roget” — 1865 — Histoires grotesques et
sérieuses, Paris: Michel Lévy frères (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
“[The Mystery of Marie Roget]” — 1881 — Underliga historier (Stockholm)
(Swedish translation, noted by Anderson, p. 54)
“Der Fall Marie Roget” — 1890 — Seltsame Gesdichten, Stuttgart: Spemann
(German translation by Alfred Mürenberg)
“The Mystery of Marie Roget” — December 14, 1953 — a radio show broadcast on the
Suspense show, with Cornell Wilde. (As was often the case with dramatic presentations of Poe’s works, the story has
been modified.)
“The Mystery of Marie Roget” — February 7, 1960 — a radio show broadcast on the
Suspense show, with Jason Beck and Robert Dryden. (As was often the case with dramatic presentations of Poe’s works,
the story has been modified.)
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Bibliography:
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University Press, 1973.
Austin, Henry, “Preface,” The Mystery of
Marie Roget, R. F. Fenno & Co., 1899, pp. 5-15
Benton, Richard P., “The Dupin MSS. As ‘Contes A Clef,’ Mathematics, and Imaginative
Creation,” in Perspectives on Poe, ed. D. Ramakrishna, New Delhi: APC Publications, 1996, pp. 109-125
Benton, Richard P., “ ‘The Mystery of Marie Roget’ — A Defense,” Studies in
Short Fiction, Winter 1969, 6:144-152
Clemens, Will M., “The Tragedy of Mary Rogers,” Era Magazine, November 1904, 16:450-463
Crisman, William, “Poe’s Dupin as Professional: The Dupin Stories as Serial Text,” Studies
in American Fiction, Fall 1995, 23:215-229
Hatvary, George Egon, “Horace Binney Wallace: A Study in Self Destruction,” Princeton University
Library Chronicle, 1964, 25:137-149
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.
Kopley, Richard, “ ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’ and ‘Various Newspaper
Files’,” in Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. 45-63
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.
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Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, April 1942, 60:116-123
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John Calvin Metcalf, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1941, pp. 322-338.
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