In 1840s New York, poet Frances Osgood forms a dangerous attraction to Edgar Allan Poe, complicated by his wife’s obsession.
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In 1840s New York, poet Frances Osgood forms a dangerous attraction to Edgar Allan Poe, complicated by his wife’s obsession.
Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.
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Central adulterous affair with explicit on-page intimate scenes
Mild peril and tension from jealousy and obsession
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Period drinking; Poe’s alcohol use depicted recurring
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Recurring themes of women’s limited rights in 1840s society
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Marital betrayal, emotional manipulation, constrained women’s lives
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