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Edgar Allan Poe — “Ligeia”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “Ligeia” — reading copy — based on Text 00

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

  • "Ligeia" — 1838, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • "Ligeia" — September 1838 — American Museum — Text 02  (Mabbott text A)
  • "Ligeia" — 1840 — TGA — Text 03  (Mabbott text B)
  • "Ligeia" — 1842 — TGAPP — Text 04  (Mabbott text C)
  • "Ligeia" — February 15, 1845 — New World — Text 05  (Mabbott text D)
  • "Ligeia" — September 27, 1845 — Broadway Journal — Text 06  (Mabbott text E)
  • "Ligeia" — 1848 — manuscript revisions in Whitman copy of Text 06 — Text 07  (Mabbott text F)  (This is Mabbott's copytext)

Reprints:
  • "Ligeia" — August 1, 1848 — Illustrated Monthly Courier (Philadelphia), pp. 17-21 (This reprint is noted in the1992 "The Poe Catalogue" of the 19th Century Bookshop, p. 89. It is not mentioned by H&C or Mabbott.)
  • "Ligeia" — 1850 — WORKS — Griswold reprints Text 06  (Mabbott text G)
  • "Ligeia" — October 1855 — The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine (UK), vol. III., pp. 265-271 (apparently reprinted from Text 08)
  • “Ligeia” — 1894-1895 —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 1: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (1:182-202)
  • “Ligeia” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales I, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (2:248-268, and 2:385-391)
  • “Ligeia” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:305-334)

Associated Material and Special versions:

  • "Ligeia" — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire)
    • "Ligeia" — February 3-4, 1855 — Le Pays
      • "Ligeia" — Part I — February 3, 1855
      • "Ligeia" — Part II — February 4, 1855
    • "Ligeia" — 1856 — Histoires extraordinaires, Paris: Michel Lévy frères
  • “[Ligeia]" — 1893 — (Russian translation by A. Mereshkovsky)













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