The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 20
of their poverty thelittle family of three had happy years together. From time to time Poe would take a positionwith a newspaper or magazine; but he had onefrightful enemy that always robbed him of hisposition. This enemy was his own weak will, andEdgar Allan Poe, the brilliant man who couldwrite… … lerson WashingtonIrvinq OUR GREAT AMERICAN WRITERS it, some say that he brought it upon himself. Wedo not know. We do know that his wife believedin him and loved him, and that her death was agreat sorrow to him. We know that Mrs. Clemm,though she knew his faults, loved him andmourned his death,…
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