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first love
at age 15 Edgar falls in love with his friends mother and then she passes away from brain cancer. -
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the tragic life of Edgar Allan Poe
Poe was a famous american writer who had a very tragic and short life. -
father leaves family
father walks out on the whole family. -
mother passes
his mother dies because of TB when he was almost 3.
he is sent to foster care with the Allen family. -
sent to bording school
foster mother is sick. foster father is having affairs and he sends him to bording school with no money. Edgar is very poor. -
foster mother dies
foster mother dies of TB. he has a very close relationship with her.
he was very sad. -
feel in love with his cousin Virginia
after moving in with his aunt he falls in love with his 12 year old 1st cousin. -
marries virginia
Poe and his cousin are married when she is almost 13 and he is 26. they have a happy life together. -
Virginia gets TB
poe knows she will die, they are very poor and he worked his self to death trying to keep her alive. -
poe publishes the raven
he gets paid only 14 dollars for this famous poem. -
his wife dies
this causes him to drink more and he becomes obsessed trying to find another women because he is so sad. -
Poe dies
Poe is found unconscious on a street Baltimore on Oct 3, he is not wearing his own clothes and seems drugged.no one knows what happened to him. he died a few days later in the hospital.