Great Regulars: While working as an editorial assistant

at Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in 1839, he [Edgar Allan Poe,] wrote and sold "The Fall of the House of Usher" to the magazine. He then published a two-volume collection of stories, "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque," but received none of the profits.

from findingDulcinea: Happy Birthday: Edgar Allan Poe, Poet and Master of the Gothic, Mystery and Horror Genres

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Peter Mark Roget had far-ranging passions and hobbies. He was a philologist, a doctor, a teacher, an inventor and a chess aficionado. Roget improved on the kaleidoscope and made important contributions to the science of cinema. He helped found the University of London and the Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge, but arguably his most memorable contribution is his thesaurus.

from findingDulcinea: Happy Birthday: Peter Mark Roget, Compiler of Roget's Thesaurus

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