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Poe’s Actress Mother-Part One. October 15, 2014. “For my little son Edgar, who should ever love Boston, the place of his birth, and where his mother found her best and most sympathetic friends.”. This line was written on a watercolor painting of Boston, painted by Eliza Poe in 1808, which was gifted to Edgar on her deathbed (Poe Boston).
December 8, 1811. Place of Burial: Richmond, Virginia. Cemetery Name: St. John's Episcopal Churchyard. Elizabeth Arnold Poe was a beautiful and talented actress who charmed theatergoers of her day. Born in England, she traveled with her mother, who was also an actress, to the United States in 1796.
Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins ("Eliza") Poe, an English-born actress and mother of three children, including the future writer Edgar Allan Poe, is the subject of this portrait. While a member of the Placide and Green Company theater group, the twenty-four-year-old Poe became ill and died on December 8, 1811, in a Richmond boarding house.
Dec 8, 2013 · Sunday 8 December 2013. The Ailing Life of Eliza Poe. Eliza Poe (Née Elizabeth Arnold; London, England, 1787 - Richmond, Virginia, America, 8th December 1811) Today we find ourselves present at a sad event as we witness the final weeks in the life of a young woman.
American actress who was the mother of Edgar Allan Poe.
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When the actress Eliza Poe--mother of Edgar Allen Poe--died at age 24 in Richmond, Virginia, she had played with every important theatrical company in the country. Compared to actors...
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe was the wife of the famous American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who is best known for his poetry and tales of mystery and macabre. Their marriage became the topic of discussion because of the fact that they were first cousins and when they got married, she was just 13 years old and Edgar 26.
