1. Rufus Griswold wrote a biographical "Memoir" of Poe, which he included in an additional volume of the collected works. Griswold depicted Poe as a depraved, drunk, drug-addled madman.

Zu seinen stilprägenden Erzählungen gehören Der Untergang des Hauses Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) und Die Abenteuer Gordon Pyms (The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket).

2. Shelley wrote in a biographical style popularised by the 18th-century critic Samuel Johnson in his Lives of the Poets (1779–81), combining secondary sources, memoir and anecdote, and authorial evaluation.

Mary Shelley schrieb ihre Biografien in dem Stil, den Samuel Johnson mit seinem Werk Lives of the Poets (1779 bis 1781) populär gemacht hatte und verbindet Erinnerungen, Sekundärliteratur sowie anekdotische Überlieferungen mit ihrer eigenen Bewertung der jeweiligen Person.

3. In her 1856 memoir Wau Bun, Juliette Kinzie described the fort as it appeared on her arrival in Chicago in 1831: The fort was inclosed by high pickets, with bastions at the alternate angles.

In ihren 1856 erschienenen Memoiren Wau Bun beschrieb Juliette Kinzie das Fort, wie es bei ihrer Ankunft in Chicago im Jahr 1831 aussah: “The fort was inclosed by high pickets, with bastions at the alternate angles.