Obering; An inkling of something important, yet thought a secret.
- John Mactaggart's Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824
This Day in Literary History
On this day in 1811, a notice appeared in the Richmond, Virginia Inquirer asking for donations in aid of Eliza Poe, a young actress now "lingering on the bed of disease and surrounded by her children." Though two-year-old Edgar would be rescued by the Allan family, the life of poverty, abandonment and hand-outs so familiar to his mother would eventually return to stay.
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