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Edgar allan poe
American writer, critic and editor Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his tales and poems of horror and mystery, including The Raven. -
Dec 10, 1810 Poe’s Sister is born.
Poe's sister Rosalie is born. Shortly after her birth, or possibly even before it, David Poe deserts the family, leaving Poe's mother alone with three children. Making matters worse, Elizabeth Poe soon falls ill with tuberculosis -
Poe’s Parents Die.
Elizabeth Arnold Poe dies of tuberculosis in Richmond, Virginia. Within days, David Poe also dies of tuberculosis. With no parents to take care of them, the three children of the family are split up. Henry goes to live with his paternal grandparents. A Richmond couple, John and Frances Allan, take in Edgar as a foster child. Rosalie is taken in by another Richmond family named Mackenzie. Both Edgar and Rosalie adopt their foster families' names as their middle names. -
Poe writes his first poem
A fifteen-year-old Edgar Allan Poe pens his first known poem: "Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest." -
Poe enlists in the U.S. Army and shortly after his first book is published.
Edgar Allan Poe’s return to Richmond after his first semester at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in December 1826 was not the joyous reunion with family and friends that most college freshmen experience. Poe’s friends avoided him. He discovered that his sweetheart, Elmira Royster, had gotten engaged in his absence. A two-year feud between Poe and his foster father, John Allan, erupted in an argument that sent Poe packing. -
Poe’s older brother dies.
Edgar's older brother Henry dies of either tuberculosis or cholera at the age of 27 -
Poe marries his thirteen year old cousin, Virginia Clemm
Poe,now 27 years old, marries his thirteen-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, at a ceremony in Richmond, Virginia. -
Poe writes his first novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.
Pym was written during a professionally productive period in Poe's life, but it was a time also marked by financial and personal difficulties. -
Poe's story collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is published in two volumes.
This is Edgar Allan Poe's first published collection of short stories. Though he had tried as early as 1834 to publish such a volume, it was not until 1840 that this book appeared. The items in this two-volume set were previously published individually in various periodicals. Popular stories in this collection include "The Fall of the House of Usher," "Ligeia," "Berenice," "Morella," and "King Pest." Only 750 copies were printed, including twenty that were given to Poe as payment. Sales were p -
1845 Poe publishes the poem, The Raven.
On January 29, 1845 one of the most famous and recognizable poems ever published in the United States hit the streets. Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven was published in the New York’s The Evening Mirror. The New York Mirror was a weekly newspaper published in New York City from 1823 to 1842, and again as a daily newspaper renamed The Evening Mirror from 1844 to 1898. -
Jan 30, 1847 Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx.
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe was the wife of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The couple were first cousins and married when Virginia Clemm was 13 and Poe was 27. Some biographers have suggested that the couple's relationship was more like that between brother and sister than like husband and wife in that they may have never consummated their marriage. -
Edgar Allen Poe Dies.
His intended destination had been Philadelphia, where he was to edit a volume of poetry for Mrs. St. Leon Loud. Dr. Snodgrass found Poe semiconscious and dressed in cheap, ill-fitting clothes so unlike Poe's usual mode of dress that many believe that Poe's own clothing had been stolen. Poe was taken to Washington College Hospital on the afternoon of October 3 and did not regain consciousness until the next morning. For days he passed from delirium to unconsciousness, but never recovered well eno
