Episode 9 – Originally Published in 2016
It’s 1838. A struggling writer moved to Philadelphia in the hopes of skyrocketing his career. It’s hard out there for a writer, especially one who is brilliant and unusual, with personal demons like Edgar Allen Poe.
Poe lived in Philadelphia for almost 7 years in the late 1830s to early 1840s. These were some of his most successful and prolific years as a writer, although they weren’t the most lucrative. While Poe lived in Philly, he was inspired by a raven named Grip, Charles Dicken’s pet raven who, after death, found a home in Philadelphia.
This episode explores the connections between Dickens and Poe, Poe’s life in Philadelphia and the infamous raven.
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