Eleanor Poe Barlow taught for over 30 years in nationally recognized independent schools in the United States and at Gad's Hill School, originally the home of Charles Dickens in Kent, England. As an English teacher Ms. Barlow specialised in the literature of great writers, gaining recognition in particular as a Dickens scholar. For its annual ceremony commemorating the death of Charles Dickens, the worldwide Dickens Fellowship appointed Ms. Barlow to lay the wreath and give a talk on June 9th, 1994, in Westminster Abbey at the grave of Charles Dickens in Poets' Corner. At a Gad's Hill Evening later that month she delivered a paper, 'Dickens and Children: A Moral Journey.' Ms. Barlow, who is a collateral descendant of Edgar Allan Poe, lectures on great writers. She is researching a series of biographies on literary figures, each to be told from an unusual point of view. Ms. Barlow received a B.A. degree from Smith College. She has participated in a number of national writers conferences. She belongs to the Dickens Fellowship, the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, and the National League of American Pen Women. She lives in the small lobstering town of Friendship, Maine.