William Newnham


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William Newnham

William Newnham

Portrait by John Andrews

(Born: November 1, 1790 - Died: October 24, 1865)

English medical practitioner. He was born in Farnham. His parents were John Newnham and Mary Dowden. William married Caroline Atkinson. He died at Tunbridge Wells. (His obituary is in the Gentleman’s Magazine, London, November, 1865.) Essays on Superstition (1830)

 

  • Review of Human Magnetism    (April 5, 1845, text “A” — Broadway Journal)

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  • 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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