She meets the handsome and mysterious Poe at a literary party, and the two have an immediate connection. As Frances tries to sell her work, she finds that editors are only interested in writing similar to that of the new renegade literary sensation Edgar Allan Poe, whose poem, “The Raven” has struck a public nerve. It is 1845, and Frances Osgood is desperately trying to make a living as a writer in New York not an easy task for a woman-especially one with two children and a philandering portrait painter as her husband. "When given bad news, most women of my station can afford to slump into their divans, their china cups slipping from their fingers to the carpet, their hair falling prettily from its pins, their fourteen starched petticoats compacting with a plush crunch."Ī vivid and compelling novel about a woman who becomes entangled in an affair with Edgar Allan Poe-at the same time she becomes the unwilling confidante of his much-younger wife.
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