Mrs. L. Miles


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Sections:  Biography    Criticism    Bibliography


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There is nothing known about Mrs. Miles beyond the implication that she was the author of a book on Phrenology. The book Poe reviewed was the U. S. printing, as a bound volume, of a work originally published in London, as a set of 40 cards in a book-shaped box. Both editions are called The Casket of Knowledge. The London edition is dedicated to “their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria,” but there is no reason to presume from this very conventional dedication any formal connection between Mrs. Miles and the royal family. Indeed, the strong probability exists that Mrs. L. Miles is little more than a pseudonym.

 

Phrenology, and the Moral Influence of Phrenology: Arranged for General Study, and the Purposes of Education, from the first published works of Gall and Spurzheim, to the latest discoveries of the present period. By Mrs. L. Miles. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835.

  • Review  (March 1836, text “A” — Southern Literary Messenger)

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  • 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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