Poe Discovers Dickens
I just discovered that my book reviews have appeared in the same paper that first published some of Dickens' novels in America. According to Scharf and Westcott's History of Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Inquirer was first published as the Pennsylvania Inquirer on June 29, 1829:
But while publishing all of the news it aimed for a circulation among families, and general literature was a feature in its pages. Several of Charles Dickens' novels, among them "Master Humphrey's Clock" and "Barnaby Rudge," were published in The Inquirer for the first time in this country . . .
It's likely that Edgar Allan Poe first read about Grip the talking raven, inspiration for Poe's own Raven in the pages of the Philly Inq. And of course, it was while residing in Philadelphia that Poe first met Dickens at the United States Hotel.
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BTW...any idea where you can get a ood cup of coffee in Philly on a Monday morning?
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