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Mrs. Rebecca S. Nichols
American editor and poet. She was born in Greenwich, NJ. When she was a child, her family moved to Kentucky. She married William Nichols in 1838, and moved to St. Louis, KY in 1839. In 1841, they moved to Cincinnati, OH. She had seven children, all but two of whom died in infancy. Her early poems were published under the pseudonym of “Ellen.” She also used the name “Kate Cleveland.”
- Notice from “Autography”
- “R. S. Nichols” (“An Appendix of Autographs”) — January 1842 — Graham’s Magazine
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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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