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Text: John Ward Ostrom, “Edgar A. Poe: His Income as Literary Entrepreneur ,” Poe Studies, June 1982, Vol. XV, No. 1, 15:1-7
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John Ward Ostrom
Wittenberg university, Emeritus
Edgar Allan Poe’s financial life was perpetually precarious.
His salary on the Southern Literary Messenger, Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine, and the Broadway Journal as editor or assistant editor has been stated, not always correctly, but his total annual income and possible expenses have been treated scarcely at all.
Throughout his professional life, especially from July 1835 to October 1849, he was above the equivalent of our 1981 national poverty level only once — during his association with Graham’s Magazine. The present study of Poe’s financial condition during his working years has depended on information from his correspondence, from relevant secondary books and a