Incidentally this reminds me how in popular memory we act as if Alcott, Austen, Melville, the Shelleys, Stoker, Twain, etc. were all contemporaries when in fact they lived and thrived decades apart.https://twitter.com/gerrycanavan/status/1222248200616206339 …
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Dracula came out like 80 years after Frankenstein and Little Women was published about 60 years after Pride and Prejudice.
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It makes me laugh because I imagine in 50 years we're going to be acting as if Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Jack Wild all lived and wrote around the same time.
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Poe Party is based on this misunderstanding and makes fun of it
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The cops come to Poe's house looking for Agatha Christie because her car was found abandoned and he's all "What's a car"
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