Poe's Family, Friends, Enemies and Others

The categorization of the following people as friends, etc. is a somewhat arbitrary convenience. Some of Poe’s former friends, such as Thomas Dunn English, became his most bitter enemies. Others, such as N. P. Willis, began as literary enemies, but became close professional and personal friends.

• Clemm, Mrs. Maria  (Poe’s mother-in-law)
• Poe, Mrs. Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins  (Poe’s mother)  (12K JPG file, grayscale)
• Poe, Neilson  (Poe’s Baltimore cousin)
• Poe, Miss Rosalie Mackenzie  (Poe’s sister)  (7K JPG file, grayscale)
• Poe, Mrs. Virginia Eliza Clemm  (Poe’s wife)
• Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Herring  (Poe’s cousin Elizabeth)

• Allan, Frances Keeling  (Poe’s foster mother)  (9K JPG file, grayscale)
• Allan, John  (Poe’s foster father) (9K JPG file, grayscale)
• Allan, Louisa Gabrielle  (The second Mrs. Allan)  (9K JPG file, grayscale)

• Arthur, Timothy Shay  (xxxxx)
• Chivers, Dr. Thomas Holley  (Poe’s Correspondent from Georgia)  (8.5K JPG file, grayscale)
• Cooke, Phillip Pendleton  (xxxxx)  (xK JPG file, grayscale)
• Graham, George Rex  (Owner of Graham’s Magazine)   (8K JPG file, grayscale)
• Godey, Louis Antoine  (Owner of Godey’s Lady’s Book)   (8.5K JPG file, grayscale)
• Hirst, Henry Beck  (Poe’s first biographer)  (10K JPG file, grayscale)
• Kennedy, John Pendleton  (Poe’s first significant literary contact)  (8K JPG file, grayscale)
• Lewis, Mrs. Anna Estelle  (Poe’s “Stella”)  (9K JPG file, grayscale)
• Lippard, George  (Poe’s Philadelphia admirer)  (10K JPG file, grayscale)
• Lowell, James Russell  (Poe’s “sometimes” friend)  (10.5K JPG file, grayscale)
• Osgood, Mrs. Frances Sargent  (Poe’s steadfast admirerer)  (4.5K JPG file, grayscale)
• Richmond, Mrs. Annie  (Poe’s “Annie”)  (10.5K JPG file, grayscale)
• Sartain, John  (Owner of Sartain’s Union Magazine)   (11K JPG file, grayscale)
• Shelton, Mrs. Sarah Elmira Royster  (Poe’s childhoold sweetheart)  (12K JPG file, grayscale)
• Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes  (xxxxx)  (xK JPG file, grayscale)
• Stannard, Robert  (A childhood friend)  (8.5K JPG file, grayscale)
• Stannard, Mrs. Jane Stith Craig  (The first “Helen”)  (10K JPG file, grayscale)
• Sully, Robert  (xxxxx)  (xK JPG file, grayscale)
• Thomas, Frederick William  (Poe’s loyal friend)  (10.5K JPG file, grayscale)
• Weiss, Mrs. Susan Archer Tally  (Author of The Home Life of Poe and several articles on Poe.)  (7K JPG file, grayscale)
• White, Thomas Willis  (Owner of the Southern Literary Messenger)   (9.5K JPG file, grayscale)
• Whitman, Mrs. Sarah Helen  (Poe’s one-time fiancee)  (8K JPG file, grayscale)
• Willis, Nathaniel Parker  (Editor of the Evening Mirror, and later the Home Journal)   (6.5K JPG file, grayscale)

• Briggs, Charles F.  (Poe’s temporary co-editor of the Broadway Journal)   (10.5K JPG file, grayscale)
• Clark, Lewis Gaylord  (Editor of the Knickerbocker Magazine)   (9K JPG file, grayscale)
• Ellet, Elizabeth Fries (or Frieze)  (xxxxx)  (xK JPG file, grayscale)
• English, Thomas Dunn  (Editor of the John Donkey)   (9K JPG file, grayscale)
• Griswold, Rufus Wilmot  (Poe’s literary executioner)  (6K JPG file, grayscale)
• Hewitt, John Hill  (Editor of the Baltimore Minerva and Emerald, and later the Baltimore Saturday Visiter)   (10.5K JPG file, grayscale)
• Stoddard, Richard Henry  (Griswold’s protege)  (8K JPG file, grayscale)

• Baudelaire, Charles A.  (xxxxx)  (xK JPG file, grayscale)
• Burton, William E.  (Owner of Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine)   (9K JPG file, grayscale)
• Dickens, Charles  (xxxxx)  (xK JPG file, grayscale)
• Duyckinck, Evert A.  (Editor of Poe’s 1845 Tales)   (8.5K JPG file, grayscale)
• Greeley, Horace  (xxxxx)  (xK JPG file, grayscale)
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel  (xxxxx)  (xK JPG file, grayscale)
• Ingram, John H.  (Poe’s English biographer)  (9K JPG file, grayscale)
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth  (xxxxx)  (xK JPG file, grayscale)