Osgood was trying to carve out a career after being left by her bounder husband, the painter Samuel Stillman Osgood, with debts and two young daughters. His poem “The Raven” was all the rage its dark, complex author was routinely gossiped about by society ladies, despite his marriage to his sickly, much younger cousin. Poe and Osgood met in 1845 in New York City when he was at the peak of his social and literary prominence. The primary one is its first-person telling by the “other woman,” a popular magazine poet and author today little remembered beyond rumours of her scandalous adultery with Poe. But it’s a story also nicely laden with 21st-century sensibilities at a time when Poe’s work is undergoing a revival. In this reimagining of the tortured triangulated relationship between Edgar Allan Poe, his wife, Virginia, and his purported mistress, Frances Sargent Osgood, Cullen delivers a clever tale in the 19th-century tradition of the Gothic bard himself.
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