attributed author of The Phrenological Gem. A Concise View of the Science, and its Moral Influence (New York: C. S. Francis, 1836).
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
772.1
— 772.1 *Phrenology and the Moral Influence of Phrenology [40 pocket-size cards each describing a mental faculty, with names in German and English--bourgeois novelty]. London: Akerman & Co, [1835]. (According to Hungerford [A88], this work, slightly rewritten as Phrenology, and the Moral Influence of Phrenology, arranged for General Study, and the Purposes of Education, came out in an American edn of 1836 with the author's name identified. Poe's first contact with phrenology was in reviewing the work for the Southern Literary Messenger.)
Editorial Information
Identifier
772.
Type
Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
238
Printed page
233
Database ID
2236
Original Transcription
772. MILES, Mrs. L., attributed author of The Phrenological Gem.
A Concise View of the Science, and its Moral Influence (New York:
C. S. Francis, 1836).