“Berenice” (1835), T.O. Mabbott suggests, has been “received […] variously” by critics but “almost no selection omits it” even though the tale is somewhat “repulsive” (

2:207). It was first published in the March 1835 edition of the

, in Richmond. Further publications of the tale emerged in Poe’s famous collection

(for November of 1839), and in the

for April of 1845, with another reprint that same month in the Philadelphian

Of note is that the 1845

edition (and subsequent ones) included extensive changes in “phraseology and punctuation”, also the “deletion of four gruesome paragraphs” (2:208). Poe himself wrote to the editor of

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Citation: Sucur, Slobodan. "Berenice". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 November 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6359, accessed 26 November 2024.]