An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe brings you face-to-face with an American icon as Poe reflects on his tortuous life.A child of actors, at age three he watches his mother, Eliza Poe, die of pneumonia. His father has abandoned them. Mrs. Allan, a wealthy, childless matron, adopts and makes a pet of little Eddie but her husband despises this "child of actors."Searching for his birth family, he meets his cousin Virginia who is eight years old, and finds his soul's companion. When she is nearly fourteen they are wed. Theirs is a marriage of the spirit infused with a scent of past lives. But they live in poverty, and soon Virginia is dying of tuberculosis.Asked by the New York City Historic House Trust to write a one-man play for the Poe Cottage in the Bronx, author and playwright Katherine Ashe put her formidable historical research skills to work in crafting this powerful monologue, capturing the voice of the enigmatic literary figure. Here you'll find a speaking presence of Poe: "her eyes were bright with a dark glow, like lakes that hid strange dreamworlds in their depths. Her hair was damp and clung to her face like seaweed 'round the drowned."

An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe: with Poems and Short Stories by E. A. Poe

Biographies & Memoirs

Ashe, Katherine

Arts & Literature

Wake Robin Press

He was deeply religious and the greatest warrior of his time but... He married a nun who was the King of England's sister. Was he the Queen's lover and father of the heir to the throne? The king wanted him dead at any cost. He conquered England and founded Parliament For seven hundred years it was a hanging crime to speak his name.

Montfort The Early Years 1229 to 1243

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

King Henry III has suppressed the elected Parliament and returned England to the abusive governance that the Provisions of Oxford of 1258 corrected. But a new force is rising to oppose him. Young lords, the common people, even the outlaws of Sherwood and the Weald are organizing, led by Simon’s cousin Peter de Montfort and Gilbert de Clare.  Condemned as a traitor, Simon is lured back to England from his refuge in France where he has taken the Cross of a crusader and is about to leave for the Holy Land. Seeing the cause he championed reviving, he agrees to be the leader of this new army. In the end he will be recognized by the people as the Angel of the Apocalypse, as the thousand year process commences in which the Church and nations dissolve in a single world order governed by the common people inspired by the Holy Spirit -- as predicted in the millennial theology of Joachim de Flor.

Montfort The Angel with the Sword: 1260 to 1265 (Montfort The Founder of Parliament)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

When reading through the ample “historical context” notes that follow each volume of Katherine Ashe’s utterly remarkable tetralogy of novels based on the life of Simon de Montfort, one thing becomes obvious: she could easily have produced the most authoritative English-language biography of her subject ever written. Historical Novel Society review Restored to his titles Earl of Leicester, Steward of England, Simon as permanent ambassador to France is living contentedly in Paris when Prince Edward commits an atrocity and the Earl must return to save him and his friends from Llewellyn. In England again, unbidden, Simon becomes entangled in the barons' revolt against King Henry's misrule. But, when the barons recklessly abandon their project, he alone rescues the Provisions of Oxford, and newborn democracy, at risk of his life.

Montfort: The Revolutionary 1253 to 1260 (Montfort The Founder of Parliament)

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An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe: with Poems and Short Stories by E. A. Poe

Montfort The Early Years 1229 to 1243

Montfort The Angel with the Sword: 1260 to 1265 (Montfort The Founder of Parliament)

Montfort: The Revolutionary 1253 to 1260 (Montfort The Founder of Parliament)