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4 days ago · Poe is perhaps best known for his poem The Raven. He married his cousin Virginia Clemm in 1836. He was 27 at the time and she was just 13. However, first-cousin marriages were not unusual in the early 19th century, although it has been reported that the writer lied about his bride’s age on the wedding certificate, putting that she was 21.
4 days ago · Flat Threaded Nested. Land Rover. Posted 5/23/2024 08:21 (#10748661 - in reply to #10748412) Subject: RE: How of many you studied Edger Allen Poe ? nc Ia. I never studied him so I just looked him up on Wikipedia and found this interesting. In 1836, he married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, but she died of tuberculosis in 1847.
4 days ago · Poe notoriously married his first cousin, Virginia Clemm, in 1836 when he was 27 and she was just 13. “My son ain’t gonna be reading no Edgar Allan Poe. He’s gonna be reading the Bible," Mitchell...
1 day ago · Edgar Allan Poe and his first cousin, Virginia Clemm (1822–1847) [33] John J. Pettus (1813–1867), 23rd Governor of Mississippi, and his first cousin, Permelia Virginia Winston. Peter A. Porter (1827–1864), lawyer, politician and a Union Army colonel, and his first cousin, Mary Cabell Breckinridge.
5 days ago · Answer: Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet whose works are well known for their Gothic themes, especially surrounding death. Poe's works may have been inspired from the large number of tragedies he experienced in his life, including the early deaths of his mother and his wife/cousin, Virginia Clemm.
2 days ago · Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor. He is known for his antihero roles and film noir appearances. He received nominations for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award .
1 day ago · Lee‘s once-formidable Army of Northern Virginia, now exhausted and depleted, found itself increasingly outnumbered and outgunned by Grant‘s forces. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture and unite with other Confederate forces in North Carolina, Lee led his army on a grueling march west from the fallen Confederate capital of Richmond.
