Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - People

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(Born: November 9, 1799 - Died: March 14, 1880)

Author, playwright and marine insurer. Lawson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of John Lawson and Christina Thomson. He emigrated to the United States in 1815, settling in New York City, where he worked for his uncle’s accounting firm. In 1826, he turned to journalism. He married Mary Eliza Donaldson in 1835. They had at least three children. His Tales and Sketches by a Cosmopolite (2 volumes), was published in 1830 in New York by Elam Bliss.

Criticism:

Notice from “The Literati”
- “James Lawson” (“The Literati of New York City” - No. IV) — August 1846 — Godey’s Lady’s Book
- “James Lawson” — 1848 — Literary America
- “James Lawson” (“The Literati”) — 1850 — WORKS

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Bibliography:

Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., “James Lawson,” Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:280-282
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)
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B., Poe and the New York Literati: A Study of the “Literati” Sketches and of Poe’s Relations with the NewYork Writers, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Duke University, 1954.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.
Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds., Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889, 3:642

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