Edgar Allan Poe — “Morella”

Reading copy:

• “Morella” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “Morella” — about 1835 — unfinished “Simmons” manuscript — (Mabbott text A)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text for this early version)
• Text-02 — “Morella” — 1835 — no original manuscript of the complete form, or fragments, are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-03)
• Text-03 — “Morella” — April 1835 — Southern Literary Messenger — (Mabbott text B)
• Text-04 — “Morella” — late 1839 — TGA (1840) — (Mabbott text C)  (Although the imprint date is 1840, this book was available by early December 1839. Although it appeared after Text-05, it presumably represents a slightly earlier form.)
• Text-05 — “Morella” — November 1839 — Burton’s — (Mabbott text D)
• Text-06 — “Morella” — 1842 — TGAPP — (Mabbott text E)  (This version is a modified form of Text-05)
• Text-07 — “Morella” — June 21, 1845 — Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text F) (For Griswold’s 1850 reprinting of this text, see the entry below, under reprints.)
• Text-08 — “Morella” — 1848 — manuscript revisions in Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text G)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text for the final version)

Reprints:

• “Morella” — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text-07  (Mabbott text H)
• “Morella” — 1852 — Tales and Sketches: to which is added The Raven: A Poem, London, George Routledge & Co.

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Morella” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (1:174-181)
• “Morella” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales I, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (2:27-34, and 2:318-323)
• “Morella” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:221-237)

Instream Comparative Texts:

• “Morella” — comparative text (TGAPP) (This comparative text shows the changes Poe made in manuscript in his own copy of Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1842, the intended new edition being called Phantasy Pieces.)

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None.

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Morella” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
  • “Morella” — November 14-15, 1853 — Paris
    • “Morella” — Part I  (November 14, 1853)
    • “Morella” — Part II  (November 15, 1853)
  • “Morella” — September 18, 1854 — Le Pays
  • “Morella” — 1856 — Histoires extraordinaires, Paris: Michel Lévy frères

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• 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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