The Love Triangle of Edgar Allan Poe

Who was American author Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818-1877) and why was she so obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe? Criticizing her body of work in the 1840s, Ellet appears to have stalked Poe for years. Learn more about Ellet in Poe's personal recollection of her to his betrothed, Sarah Helen Whitman.

Sources:

Northern Illinois University Libraries, https://ulib.niu.edu/badndp/ellet_eli...

Portraits of American Women Writers, Elizabeth F. Ellet, https://www.librarycompany.org/women/...

MSU Libraries: Digital Repository, Elizabeth F. Ellet, https://d.lib.msu.edu/msul:43

Famous Americans, William Henry Ellet, http://famousamericans.net/williamhen...

A Cyclopedia of Women Biography, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Cycl....

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