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May 25, 2024 · The death of Poe's wife Virginia Eliza (Clemm) Poe (1822 - 1847). July 1848. Poe's first visit to Lowell to deliver a lecture on poetry titled “The Poets and Poetry of America”. October and November 1848 (after October 20 to November 3 or 4) In his second visit, Poe spends time in Lowell and three days in Westford. May 23 to June 1, 1849
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May 20, 2024 · Virginia Clemm was finally buried with her husband in 1885. Poe’s defamation of character and strange death certainly helped lead to the image most people have in their minds of a tortured, crazed genius who managed to write beautiful works while being plagued by supernatural torments.
May 16, 2024 · Maria Poe Clemm, born March 17th, 1790 in Baltimore, Maryland, was the sister of David Poe Jr. and the aunt of Edgar Allan Poe. At the age of 27, she married merchant William Clemm Jr., as his second wife. Maria became a step-mother to Clemm’s five children and the two later had three children of her own.
4 days ago · In 1835, at age 26, Poe obtained a license to marry his cousin Virginia Clemm, who was then age 13; they were married for 11 years until her death, which may have inspired some of Poe's writing. An 1845 portrait of Poe by Samuel Stillman Osgood The cottage in the Fordham section of Bronx, where Poe spent his last years. After his brother's ...
2 days ago · Poe was born in Boston in 1809 and first arrived in New York City in 1837. He came with his wife Virginia and mother-in-law Maria, but only stayed for a few months. During that time Poe lived on ...
3 days ago · On 30 January 1847 Virginia Poe dies of tuberculosis, aged twenty-four years and five months. Although Poe becomes dangerously ill after her death, he is nursed back to health by Mrs. Marie Louise Shew, a kindly, unsophisticated woman with medical training, but no interest in literature.
2 days ago · And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you In setting my Virginia's spirit free. My mother- my own mother, who died early, Was but the mother of myself; but you Are mother to the one I loved so dearly, And thus are dearer than the mother I knew By that infinity with which my wife Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life.
