The_Women_Of_LeFanu_And_Poe

The Women Of LeFanu And Poe The Women of LeFanu and Poe The women in the stories of Edgar A. Poe and Sheridan LeFanu are of two different persuasions but both have in common their death and demise. Poe’s stories exist mostly in the natural realm, some in the psychological, and LeFanu’s lean towards the supernatural. To understand why these two prolific men wrote about women the way they did we have to examine their background with women. Poe had a tough childhood growing up. He lost his father and mother only a year apart in 1810 and 1811. His sister went crazy and lost her mind. While he was in school, around the age of fifteen, a mother of one of his classmates acted as a mother figure for him. But she also died. Her death was a result of a brain tumor. Poe thought of her as the mother he always wanted. Later on in his life he married his thirteen year old cousin. She burst a blood vessel and became a vegetable until she died. With all the women in Poe’s life dying you can see the reason why he wrote about women either dead or dying in his stories. In contrast to Poe women, poe, stories, poe’s, woman, story, part, life, way, little, lefanu, very, towards, sister, real, narrator, mother, men, lost, end, dying, died, demise, death, about, two, speaking, natural, mostly, morgue, love, just, house, different, dead, cat