An Evening with Edgar Allen Poe (Plymouth)
Hedge House Museum 126 Water St, Plymouth, MA, United StatesDuring the height of the Victorian spiritualist movement, Plymouth had an unusual connection to Poe. Native Plymouthean Lizzie Doten became a national celebrity in the 1850s and 1860s, reciting poetry to large audiences across the country. She claimed that her poems were dictated to her from beyond the grave by the ghost of Edgar Allan […]