With the help of my honors class at Temple this semester, I'm finally returning more concretely to Literary Philadelphia! Toward first steps in mapping Philadelphia's literary heritage, we have this humble Google map. I've just begun to plot a few known sites, but some of Philadelphia's most traditionally recognized literary minds aren't quite mapped or easily mappable quite yet. Among the missing are George Lippard, Christopher Morley, Charles Brockden Brown, and Robert Montgomery Bird, and many others. On the left is an image from the City Archives of the Edgar Allan Poe house from sometime before the house came under the City of Philadelphia and before the City donated the house to the National Park Service.
