Edger Allen Poe

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    Life

  • Poe's father leaves the family

    this event will shape how the men in his life will come to him
  • Poe's mother died

    his mom had tb and he watched her cough up blood, when she passed all the kids had to go to a foster home and all got separated
  • Poe's moved in with the Allen family

    Poe found a good foster home but is still split up from siblings
  • Poe's first love died

    this women was one of Poe's school friends mom
  • Foster father had many affairs well mother was sick

    The mother had tb in bed and the father had a new girl in the house like everyady
  • Poe's foster mother died

    the mom had tb
  • Poe married his 12 year old cousin

    he fell in love with her and they eventually got married
  • Virginia (Poe's wife) died

    she died of tb leaving him in bad conditions
  • Period: to

    down hill events

    after his wife died Poe went crazy he drink's almost every night and wrote the same letters to all different women saying the same thing most of the time