Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - People

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Sections: Biography Criticism Bibliography

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(Born: ca. 1815 - Died: April 16, 1856)

American journalist, known as “Gaslight Foster.” He moved to New York City in 1842, where he became a reporter for the New York Tribune. While working for the Tribune, he wrote a series of articles in 1848 which proved to be quite popular and were soon published as New York in Slices (New York: W. F. Burgess, 1849 and New York by Gaslight (Dewitt & Davenport, 1850). He died in Philadelphia, where his passing was announced in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin on April 16, 1856 as having occurred “suddenly in this city this morning. His disease, we believe, was congestion of the brain.”

Criticism:

Notice from “Autography”
- “G. G. Foster” (“A Chapter on Autography” - part II) — December 1841 — Graham’s Magazine

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Bibliography:

Anonynous, “Death of G. G. Foster,” New York Times, April 17, 1856
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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