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Saturday, May 14 • 3:00pm - 3:45pm
Poe and Madness

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The knowledge about mental illness in Poe’s time, asylums, treatments, insane people in Poe’s life, and how he wrote about it
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Chris Semtner

The Curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, Chris Semtner has written several books on Edgar Allan Poe and appeared on BBC 4’s Edgar Allan Poe: Love, Death, and Women and the Military Channel’s History: Facts vs. Fiction. The New York Times called his Library of Virginia exhibit... Read More →


Saturday May 14, 2016 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Salon C Radisson
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