#1838

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Anatomie des Menschen (1838/etchings) - Carl Ernst Bock

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A drawing by Paul Gavarni, 1838, in his series Les Petits malheurs du bonheur (Little Misfortunes of Happiness).

The caption reads: Pour ne pas afficher ses amours, sortir précipitamment par une porte dérobée et rester pris au traquenard. (In order not to show off your love life, you rush out through a back door and get caught in the trap.)

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Grace Darling and her Father rescuing Survivors from the Wreck of the “Forfarshire” on the Farne Islands, Sep. 7th, 1838, by Charlies Achille D’Hardiviller, 1838

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La Mode, 17 novembre 1838, Paris. Coiffures de Mariton, Bte 64 Ste. Anne. Toilettes expédiées par la maison de commission Lassalle, 25 rue du Helder au 1er. Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library

LEFT- She is wearing a white off the shoulder dress. The dress has a floral embroidered print and is decorated with pink bows. The skirt is decorated with three tiers of ruffles. RIGHT- She is wearing a white scooped-neck dress which is lined with pink flowers.

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Diagram of the year divided by seasons and signs of the Zodiac. The Saturday Magazine. November 1838.

Internet Archive

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Queen Victoria's Coronation Supertunica. From the Royal Collection Trust.

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Benjamin Heinrich Orth (German, 1803-1875) Portrait of a Lady, 1838

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author and poet, often credited as the father of the short story, a pioneer of science fiction, the inventor of the detective story, and the master of the horror genre. He is best known for his poems The Raven, Annabel Lee, and Helen, the short stories The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Masque of Red Death; and the detective story The Purloined Letter.

Poe was one of the most influential writers in his own time as well as generations later. Robert Mead in his Literature of the American Nation wrote that Poe's stories, poems and essays, "convey the conviction of intensity felt experience, the authority of extraordinary intelligence. That was Poe's genius" (71). One of his best themes is the difficulty of establishing a discrete limit between the living and the dead, the exploration of the border between things that one may wish to remain separate: life from death, the human from the animal, and the real from the imaginary.

Although Poe was a brilliant writer, his life was one of poverty and misery, and his short stories and poems reflect the deep sense of loss Poe experienced throughout his life. Charlotte Montagne in her book on Poe called him a giant of American literature "but his life was a disaster, a tale of unremitting misery, constant poverty and repented frustration and disappointment" (Intro). He was the first American writer to try to support his family through his writing. Unfortunately, he failed. While he may have lived in poverty, he changed American literature forever. Despite his tragic death at the age of 40, he left behind over 70 macabre stories, poems, and one novel "filled with suspense and brilliantly twisted plots." (Montagne, Intro)

Early Life

Edgar Allan Poe was born on 19 January 1809 in a boarding house near the Boston Commons in Boston, Massachusetts. Mead wrote that, from the beginning, his life seemed destined for destruction. Both of his parents were actors, not a respectable occupation at the time. His father, David Poe, Jr. (1784-1811) was a member of the Boston Thespian Group. He proved to be a major disappointment to his parents, who wanted him to become a lawyer. He and Elizabeth (Eliza) Arnold Hopkins, an expatriate English actress, met in Norfolk, Virginia, and were soon married. She was a widow. Her husband Charles Hopkins had died six months earlier. Poe's brother William Henry was born nine months later in 1807; he would die in 1831 of tuberculosis.

David and Eliza traveled the theater circuit up and down the East Coast leaving young Poe and his sister Rosalie (1810-1874) with David's parents David Sr. and Elizabeth in Baltimore. By 1811, David had abandoned his family. Never getting any respect for his acting ability, his stage career had stalled owing to his heavy drinking. He died in December of 1811 in Norfolk. Considered a talented actress by most reviewers, Eliza became ill with tuberculosis and died at the age of 24 on 8 December 1811. The young couple died within three days of each other.

Although he was only two years old, with little memory of his father, many believe Poe inherited his father's character and bad habits. Since his grandparents were financially unable to care for Poe and his little sister, Rosalie was adopted by the Richmond merchant William Mackenzie. Although never formally adopted, Poe was taken in by John Allan, a tobacco merchant and his wife Frances. Poe was given Allan as his middle name. John was said to be impulsive and quick-tempered, but Poe wanted for nothing. He was encouraged and given opportunities to indulge in his literary pursuits. He had the unique ability at a young age to memorize and recite long passages of poetry.

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North America on 26 October 1838: Fragmentation of Central America

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Brown cotton dress, 1838-1840, American.

Met Museum.

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This is Henriette D’Angeville, the first woman who in 1838 climbed Mont Blanc unassisted. For this she had 18 bottles of wine, 26 roast chickens, and a carrier pigeon.

And I like her fashionable clothes!

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The Paris Élégant of 1838.

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H.M.S. Terror nipped in the ice in Fox’s Channel, detail of a lithograph based on a drawing by William Smyth, in Narrative of an Expedition in H.M.S. Terror … in the years 1836-7, by George Back, 1838

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La Mode, 1 décembre 1838, Paris. Meubles des Magasins Maigret, 22 rue Vivienne. Parfumes de Guerlain. Mantelet de Mallard. Spincer de velours garni de chenilles et robe de satin de Gagelin Opigez. Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library

LEFT- She is wearing a blue dress with long sleeves. She is also wearing a black palatine with pink lining. RIGHT- She is wearing a green dress with a brown bodice. The brown bodice has gigot sleeves and a white fichu.