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Mrs. Mary Gove


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Mrs. Mary Gove

Mrs. Mary Gove

(Born: August 10, 1810 - Died: May 30, 1884)

American novelist, health lecturer and author. Mary Sargeant Neal was born in Goffstown, NH. She married Hiram Gove in 1831, whom she divorced in 1847. In 1848, she married Thomas Low Nichols, who shared her active interest in health reform.

 

Criticism:

  • Notice from “The Literati”
    • “Mary Gove” (“The Literati of New York City” - No. III) — July 1846 — Godey’s Lady’s Book
    • “Mary Gove” (“The Literati”) — 1850 — WORKS

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Bibliography:

  • 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)
  • Myerson, Joel, “Mary Sargeant (Neal) Gove Nichols, DLB, 1:139.
  • Reece, James B., Poe and the New York Literati: A Study of the “Literati” Sketches and of Poe’s Relations with the NewYork Writers, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Duke University, 1954.
  • 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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