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Charles Frederick Briggs
A Critical Biography
by
Bette Statsky Weidman
1968
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University.
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CONTENTS
| Page | |||||
| [ABSTRACT | a01] | ||||
| CHRONOLOGY | iii | ||||
| [INTRODUCTION | 1 | ||||
| CHAPTER ONE | |||||
| The Adventures of Harry Franco: 1839 | 16 | ||||
| CHAPTER TWO | |||||
| Making a Reputation: 1839-1845 | 44 | ||||
| CHAPTER THREE | |||||
| Lowell and Page: 1845-1846 | 69 | ||||
| CHAPTER FOUR | |||||
| The Broadway Journal: 1845 | 111 | ||||
| CHAPTER FIVE | |||||
| The End of the Journal: Briggs and Poe | 145 | ||||
| CHAPTER SIX | |||||
| The Letters of Pinto: 1846-47 | 171 | ||||
| CHAPTER SEVEN | |||||
| The Trippings of Tom Pepper: 1847-1850 | 221 | ||||
| CHAPTER EIGHT | |||||
| Putnam's Magazine: 1853-55 | 245 | ||||
| CHAPTER NINE | |||||
| The End of a Career: 1857-1877 | 281 | ||||
| APPENDIX I | |||||
| Charlotte Briggs | 316 | ||||
| APPENDIX II | |||||
| The Pinto Letters | 318 | ||||
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 320 | ||||
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Notes:
Bette Statsky was born in 1941. She obtained her B. A. from Syracuse University (about 1962), where she was Phi Betta Kappa. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1968. She was an English professor at Queens College, CUNY, 1969-2017.
All material in this edition is protected by copyright, exclusively held by the author, Bette Statsky Weidman. Dr. Weidman registered this dissertation for copyright in 1971; use, therefore, is constrained by all applicable copyright laws. Permission was obtained from Dr. Weidman herself, in March 2026, by the Poe Society of Baltimore to provide this electronic edition for personal, academic and research purposes only. Consequently, we ask all users of this material to respect these copyrights, and not to exceed what would typically be considered as fair use (generally interpreted as selective quotations and/or paraphrasing of only a small percentage of the total material, and with the appropriate attribution and citation).
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