Edgar Allan Poe's wife, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, died of tuberculosis (Consumption) on 30 January 1847 at age 24. One day while she was playing the piano she started coughing uncontrollably and a vein in her throat burst. She survived, but five years later she most likely died from the effects of tuberculosis.
Edgar Allan Poe was only married once in his lifetime. It was his first (and only) wife Virginia Clemm's five year struggle and eventual death from tuberculosis that is credited with influencing Poe's later work.
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (Edgar Allan Poe's wife) died on January 30, 1847.
Edgar Allan Poe's wife, Virginia Clemm Poe, died on January 30, 1847.
Edgar Allan Poe's wife Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe died January 30, 1847 of tuberculosis.
She died when they were living in Fordham, New York.
Edgar Allan Poe's only wife, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, died of tuberculosis at the age of 24 on January 30, 1847. She busted a blood vessel in January 1842 and died 5 years later.
At The Cottage in Fordham, New York on January 30th 1847 of tuberculosis, 32 months before Poe died himself.
Tuberculosis
John Allan (a successful Scottish merchant) and Frances Valentine Allan (John Allan's wife) were a foster family to Poe. They also provided him with an excellent twelve year education.
THE YEAR 1824
"The Raven", by Edgar Allan Poe was first published in 1845.This by the way is the exact year when it was published.By J.A.G.N
John Allan with his wife Frances Allan became the foster parents of Edgar Allan Poe after his mother died when Poe was almost three years old.
For Annie is from the book "Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe", 1849 It was written in 1849, the year Poe died.
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe was first published in January 1845.
Edgar Allan Poe wrote the poem "A Valentine" in 1846. It was first published in the Southern Literary Messenger in the same year.
Edgar Allan Poe's love life was marked by deep and often tumultuous relationships. He married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, when he was 27, and their marriage was reportedly loving but marred by her ill health. Poe also had romantic entanglements with other women, such as Elmira Royster and Sarah Helen Whitman, but many of his relationships were plagued by tragedy and loss.
The poem that begins with the line "It was many and many a year ago" is "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe. It is a poem about the narrator's love for his deceased wife Annabel Lee.
No, Edgar Allan Poe is not single.
No, Edgar Allan Poe did not like the Army. In fact, he sent a letter to his foster father asking him to help with getting him out his five-year service.
Both of Poe's foster parents, John and Frances Allan, died more than a decade prior to 1847, but Poe's wife, Virginia, died on January 30th of that year.