Elmira: The Girl Who Loved Edgar Allan Poe

Harriet Eager Davis has mingled fact and true incidents with fiction to give readers an understanding of Edgar Allan Poe through the eyes of his first love, Elmira Royster. . .'Elmira' is a love story and a sad and dramatic one. It gives an illuminating picture of the charming and gifted man who could never quite rise above misfortune and a look into the life of a Southern girl of nearly a hundred and fifty years ago.