Author: Lynn Cullen

Cites

• Mark Twain (1)
  • IN: Twain's End (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One gets large impressions in boyhood, sometimes, which he has to fight against all his life.
    FROM: The Innocents Abroad, (1869), Book, US
• Isabel Lyon (1)
  • IN: Twain's End (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: After luncheon he came gaily into my study to say that his day's work was done and to read the result. In it he reminisced, telling of his childhood. He was deeply moved for all the morning he had been living with the ghosts of long ago. And so his gaiety was assumed.
    FROM: NULL, (1909), NULL, US
• Edgar Allan Poe (4)
  • IN: Mrs. Poe (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In person [Mrs. Osgood] is about the medium height, slender even to fragility, graceful whether in action or repose; complexion usually pale; hair very black and glossy; eyes of a clear, luminous gray, large, and with a singular capacity of expression. In no respect can she be termed beautiful, (as the world understands the epithet,) but the question, "Is it really possible that she is not so?" is very frequently asked, and most frequently by those who most intimately know her.
    FROM: The Literati of New York City, No. V, "Godey's Lady Book, (1846), Poem, US
  • IN: Miss. Poe (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In person [Mrs. Osgood] is about the medium height, slender even to fragility, grateful whether in action or repose; complexion usually pale; hair very black and glossy; eyes of a clear, luminous gray, large, and with a singular capacity of expression. In no respect can she be termed beautiful, (as the world understands the epithet,) but the question, "Is it really possible that she is not so?" is very frequently asked, and most frequently by those who most intimately know her.
    FROM: "The Literati of New York City. No. V", Godey's Lady's Book, (1846), NULL, US
• Frances Sargent Osgood (2)
  • IN: Mrs. Poe (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My first meeting with the poet was at the Astor House... With his proud and beautiful head erect, his dark eyes flashing with the elective light of feeling and of thought, a peculiar, an inimitable blending of sweetness and hauteur in his expression and manner, he greeted me, calmly, gravely, almost coldly; yet with so marked an earnestness that I could not help being deeply impressed by it. From that moment until his death we were friends... I maintained a correspondence with Mr. Poe, in accordance with the earnest entreaties of his wife, who had imagined that my influence over him had a restraining and beneficial effect.
    FROM: letter to R. W. Griswold, (1850), Letter, US
  • IN: Miss. Poe (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My first meeting with the poet was at the Astor House... With his proud and beautiful head erect, his dark eyes flashing wiht the elective light of feeling and of thought, a peculiar, an inimitable blending of sweetness and hauteur in his expression and manner, he greeted me, calmly, gravely, almost coldly; yet with so marked an earnestness that I could not help being deeply impreesed by it. From that moment until his death we were friends... I maintained a correspindence with Mr. Poe, in accordance with the earnest entreaties of his wife, who imagined that my influence over him had a restraining and beneficial effect.
    FROM: letter to R.W. Griswold, (1850), NULL, US