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    Eliza Poe (née Elizabeth Arnold; formerly Hopkins; 1787 – December 8, 1811) was an English-American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar...
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    Virginia Eliza Poe (née Clemm; August 15, 1822 – January 30, 1847) was the wife of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The couple were first cousins...
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    Poe was born in Boston. He was the second child of actors David and Elizabeth "Eliza" Poe. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and when Eliza died...
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  • married the English-born Eliza Hopkins, née Arnold, whose first husband, Charles Hopkins, had died six months before. Poe was considered an inferior...
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  • Henry,: 193  was born circa January 30, 1807, to traveling actors Eliza Poe and David Poe, Jr., four months after their troupe began performing in Boston...
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    unfinished bottle of cognac. The roses were believed to represent Poe, his wife Virginia Eliza Poe, and his mother-in-law Maria Clemm, all three of whom were...
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  • The Fall of the House of Usher (miniseries) (category Television shows based on works by Edgar Allan Poe)
    mother Eliza Poe. Robert Longstreet as William Longfellow, the former CEO of Fortunato. His name comes from the poet and contemporary of Poe Henry Wadsworth...
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  • American poet Eliza Poe (1787–1811), English-American actress, mother of Edgar Allan Poe Eliza Pollock (1840–1919), American archer Eliza Potter (1820–1893)...
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    in Poe's own life as well, either to the early loss of his mother, Eliza Poe, or the long illness endured by his wife, Virginia. Ultimately, Poe considered...
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  • Retrieved November 2, 2018. Kate Beckinsale in Talks for Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation ‘Eliza Graves’ "'Athiran' review: An enticing movie that falls short of...
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  • New York City. Edgar Poe is born to husband and wife acting team Eliza and David Poe. His father disappears at night, leaving Eliza to raise the children...
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  • Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1822–1847), wife and first cousin of Edgar Allan Poe Washington Poe (1800–1876), American politician and lawyer Wilford B. Poe (born...
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    The Fall of the House of Usher (category Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe)
    friends and acting colleagues of his mother Eliza Poe. The couple took care of Eliza's three children (including Poe) during her time of illness and eventual...
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    (Poe's guardian after Eliza Poe's death), and a large reproduction of the portrait of Virginia Clemm painted after her death as well as many other Poe-related...
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    The Philosophy of Composition (category Essays by Edgar Allan Poe)
    suggested that Poe's obsession with this theme stems from the repeated loss of women throughout his life, including his mother Eliza Poe, his foster mother...
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    Annabel Lee (category Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe)
    suggested, Poe's wife Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe is one of the more credible candidates. Written in 1849, it was not published until shortly after Poe's death...
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    Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" has been frequently referenced and parodied in contemporary culture. Immediately popular after the poem's publication...
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  • expedited Poe's marriage to Virginia in order to prevent Poe's involvement with Eliza White. T. W. White's apprentice in old age would later say that Poe and...
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    of Poe's Richmond homes and place of employment, the Southern Literary Messenger. It is also a few blocks from the grave of his mother Eliza Poe who...
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  • Metzengerstein (category Short stories by Edgar Allan Poe)
    all I love to perish of that gentle disease." When Poe was still a child, his own mother, Eliza Poe, died, presumably of consumption. His wife Virginia...
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    In Poe's distressed state, he made reference to a wife in Richmond. He may have been delusional, thinking that his wife, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, was...
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    Tamerlane (poem) (category Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe)
    loss and exile. Poe may have written the poem based on his own loss of his early love, Sarah Elmira Royster, his birth mother Eliza Poe, or his foster-mother...
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    The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (category Novels by Edgar Allan Poe)
    death of Poe's brother. The first chapter features Pym's sloop named the Ariel, the name of a character once played by Poe's mother Eliza Poe, and also...
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    Eulalie (category Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe)
    autobiographical by Poe critics and biographers, stemming from the repeated loss of women throughout Poe's life, including his mother Eliza Poe and his foster...
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    attended by George III and the British royal family. Eliza Poe, the mother of writer Edgar Allan Poe made her stage debut in Miss in Her Teens at the age...
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  • (1836–1898), American musician Charles Hopkins (died 1805), first husband of Eliza Poe Charles F. Hopkins, Confederate Civil War leader at the Battle of St....
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    Tamerlane and Other Poems (category Books by Edgar Allan Poe)
    father, John Allan, grew worse. Poe determined to go to Boston, where he was born. When Poe's biological mother Eliza Poe died, the only object she left...
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    Ulalume (category Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe)
    suggested that Poe's obsession with this theme stems from the repeated loss of women throughout his life, including his mother Eliza Poe, his wife, and...
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    Independence, is buried in the churchyard. Elizabeth Arnold Poe, mother of author Edgar Allan Poe, is buried in the churchyard. Her exact burial spot is unknown...
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  • Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 age xliii. The Brief Career of Eliza Poe by Geddeth...
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