The death of Fanny Appleton Longfellow
Jul 8th, 2011 by houghtonmodern
Christoph Irmscher, professor of English at Indiana University, and the guest curator of Houghton Library’s 2007 exhibition “Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200,” has contributed a post to the Library of America’s Reader’s Almanac blog on the tragic death of Longfellow’s wife Fanny Appleton Longfellow.
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