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  • Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe
    Edgar was born on January 19, 1809 this is where he starts his unexpected journey d s born in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
  • Baptized

    Baptized
    The Allan family had Poe baptized in the Episcopal Church in 1812. John Allan alternately spoiled and aggressively disciplined his foster son.
  • family trip

    family trip
    The family, including Poe and Allan's wife, Frances Valentine Allan, sailed to Britain in 1815.
  • joing

    Poe attended the grammar school in Irvine, Scotland (where John Allan was born) for a short period in 1815, before rejoining the family in London in 1816.
  • boarding school

    There he studied at a boarding school in Chelsea until summer 1817. He was subsequently entered at the Reverend John Bransby’s Manor House School at Stoke Newington, then a suburb four miles (6 km) north of London.
  • Poes first publish

    Poes first publish
    His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".
  • married

    married
    in Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin.
  • The Raven

    The Raven
    In January 1845 Poe published his poem, "The Raven", to instant success.
  • tryeed before he died

    tryeed before he died
    He began planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced
  • poes death

    poes death
    October 7, 1849 (aged 40) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.