- 1806 (March 14) - Traveling stage actors David Poe, Jr. and
Elizabeth Arnold
Hopkins marry. (A. H. Quinn gives the date as "between
March 14 and April 9, 1806, and probably between April 5th and April
9th, in Richmond, " Quinn, p. 24.)
- 1807 (Jan. 30) - William Henry Leonard Poe (usually called Henry)
is born to David and Elizabeth Poe in Boston.
- 1809 (Jan. 19) - Edgar Poe is born in Boston. (On the back of a
miniature portrait of herself, Elizabeth Poe wrote: "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." A. H. Quinn
discusses the location of Poe's birth on pp. 727-729.)
- 1810 (Dec. 20) -
Rosalie Poe
(often called Rosie or Rose) is born in Norfolk, Virginia. (In a
letter from John Allan to Henry Poe, November 1, 1824, Allan makes the
odd statement about Rosalie that, "At least She is half your Sister &
God forbid my dear Henry that We should visit upon the living the
Errors & frailties of the dead," The Poe Log, p. 62. There is,
however, no real reason to presume that Rosalie was illegitimate. See
also Mabbott, Poems, 1969, pp. 520-521.)
- 1811 (Dec. 8) - Elizabeth Arnold Poe, Edgar's mother, dies in
Richmond, Virginia. Her remains are buried at Old St. John's Church in
old Richmond. (The exact cause of her death is unknown other than some
illness, perhaps pneumonia. Suggestions that she died from
tuberculosis are unfounded. The location of her death is discussed in
some detail by A. H. Quinn, pp. 732-741.) David Poe, Edgar's father,
apparently dies within a few days of his wife. (According to W. F.
Gill, this would be Dec. 10.) (The circumstances surrounding David
Poe's death, and the reason why he was not with his family at the
time, are shrouded in mystery. Around 1890, Mrs. Byrd, the daughter of
the Mackenzies, who took in Poe's sister Rosalie, stated, "It is
certain that Mr. [David] Poe died in Norfolk; where the company with
which they were playing . . . were compelled to leave him on account
of illness, while they went on to Richmond. On hearing of his death,
one of them returned to Norfolk and brought the whole family to
Richmond, intending to take them to their friends in Baltimore, but
Mrs. Poe being taken with pneumonia, died . . . " Weiss,
"Reminiscences of Edgar Allan Poe," The Independent, August 25,
1904, p. 447. Disagreeing somewhat with Mrs. Byrd is a November 2,
1811 letter from Samuel Mordecia to his sister Rachel: "A singular
fashion prevails here this season -- it is -- charity -- Mrs. Poe, who
you know is a very handsome woman, happens to be very sick, and
(having quarreled and parted with her husband) is destitute" The
Poe Log, p. 13. Unfortunately, appeals for money for Mrs. Poe in
Richmond newspapers of the time make no mention of David Poe. A notice
of a benefit for Mrs. Poe from July 26, 1811 in the Norfolk Herald,
however clearly suggests that David Poe was already not with the
family: "Left alone, the only support of herself and several small
children. . . . Shame on the world that can turn its back on the same
person in distress, that it was wont to cherish in prosperity," The
Poe Log, p. 11. In all of these cases, David Poe's absence by
death or desertion should have elicited much additional sympathy.
David Poe was last known to have appeared on stage on October 18,
1809, The Poe Log, p. 8. Mary Phillips confidently quotes from
an unidentified newspaper clipping that David Poe died, "at Norfolk,
Va., Oct. 19, 1810, " Phillips, Poe the Man, p. 77. A. H. Quinn
discusses this clipping on p. 44, n. 85. Quinn also notes that David
Poe "apparently did not die in New York," Quinn, p. 40. The legend
that either or both of Poe's parents died in the Richmond Theater fire
of December 26, 1811 is romantic fiction.)
- 1811 (Dec. 26) - The orphaned Edgar is taken into the home of
John and
Frances Allan
of Richmond. His sister, Rosalie, is taken in by Mr. and Mrs. William
Mackenzie, also of Richmond. His brother, Henry, remains in Baltimore
with his grandparents. Allan never legally adopts Poe, although Poe
calls John Allan "Pa" and Frances Allan "Ma." John and Frances never
have children of their own. John Allan has at least one illegitimate
child (Edwin Collier). (After Frances's death, John remarried in 1830
and had children through the second Mrs. Allan.)
- 1812 (Jan. 7) - Poe is baptized by the Reverend John Buchanan and
christened [named] as "Edgar Allan Poe," with the Allans presumably as
godparents. Poe's sister Rosalie is baptized on September 3, 1812 as
"Rosalie Mackenzie Poe."
- 1814 - Five year old Edgar begins his formal education. His
teacher is either Clotilda or Elizabeth Fisher (Mabbott, Poem,
p. 533).
- 1815 - Poe briefly moves on to the school of Mr. William Ewing.
- 1815 (June 22) - John and Frances Allan, with Edgar and Frances's
younger sister, Ann Moore Valentine (called Nancy), leave for England
aboard the Lothair.
- 1816 - Poe goes to the boarding school of the Misses Dubourg (146
Sloan Street, Chelsea, London, The Poe Log, p. 29). Here, Edgar
is known as "Master Allan" (Quinn, p. 69). Among the subjects taught
are geography, spelling and the Catechism of the Church of England.
- 1818 - Poe attends the Manor House School run by the Reverend John
Bransby (Stoke Newington, London). (The description of the school in
Poe's "William Wilson" is based, lightly, on his experiences here. Dr.
Bransby is mentioned there by name.) Here, Poe is called Edgar Allan
(Quinn, p. 71). Among his subjects is dancing. (As Bransby had a
reputation as a classical scholar, there is little doubt that classes
also taught at least some Latin and perhaps even Greek.)
- 1820 (July 22) - Edgar and his family return to America from
England aboard the Martha. Stopping briefly in New York, they
continue on to Richmond, Virginia, arriving there on July 27.
- 1821 - Poe attends the school of Joseph H. Clarke.
- 1823 (April?) - Poe attends the school of William Burke.
- 1824 (June or July) - Poe swims six or seven miles up the James
River, against a heavy tide. His schoolmaster follows in a boat in
case he needs help.
- 1824 (October 26-28) - During his tour of American, General
Lafayette visits Richmond, Virginia. The Richmond Junior Volunteers
partake in the ceremonies welcoming him. Poe is a lieutenant of the
Volunteers.
- 1824 (November ?) - Poe writes a two-line
poem: "--
Poetry - Edgar A. Poe -- Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,
Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest --." (This is Poe's earliest
surviving poem. It was never published during his lifetime, nor used
as part of a longer poem.)
- 1825 (March) - Poe leaves Burke's school and attends the school of
Dr. and Mrs. Ray Thomas.
- 1825 (March 26) - John Allan's uncle William Galt dies in
Richmond. John Allan is named in Galt's will and inherits a
comfortable fortune.
- 1825 (June 28) - John Allan purchases an enormous brick mansion
called "Moldavia" for $14,950 and moves his family there. (Moldavia
stood on the southeast corner of Fifth and Main Streets in Richmond
until it was torn down sometime around 1890.)
- 1826 (Feb. 14) - Edgar Allan Poe enters the University of
Virginia, in Charlottesville. (The school, founded by Thomas
Jefferson, first opened its doors on March 7, 1825.)
- 1826 (Dec.) - Poe returns to Richmond and finds that his childhood
sweetheart,
Elmira Royster, is engaged to Alexander B. Shelton.
Elmira's parents did not approve of a marriage with Edgar, finding the
wealthy business man Shelton more to their liking.
- 1827 (March) - Poe feuds with John Allan over gambling debts of
$2,000 Poe incurred at the University of Virginia. Although possibly
cheated, Poe's sense of honor insists that the debts must be paid, but
Allan refuses to help him. Poe leaves and heads to his family in
Baltimore.
- 1827 (May 26) - Poe enlists in the United States Army under the
name Edgar A. Perry.
- 1827 - Poe's first book,
Tamerlane and
Other Poems is published in Boston by Calvin F. S.
Thomas. The author is noted only as "A Bostonian." The thin pamphlet
sells perhaps 50 copies, many likely distributed free for reviews.
(After Poe's death, the existence of this little book, then lost in
obscurity, was offered by Griswold as an example of Poe's lying
nature. This position was accepted until 1880, when John Ingram found
a copy in the library of the British Museum. Today, only twelve copies
are known to exist. As much as $172,000 has been paid at auction. Most
copies are imperfect.)
- 1827 (Nov.) - Poe's battery arrives at Fort Moultrie, Sullivan's
Island, Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1828 (Dec. 15) - Poe's battery arrives at Fort Monroe, Old Point
Comfort, Virginia.
- 1829 (Jan. 1) - Poe is promoted to Sergeant-Major of the Regiment
of Artillery.
- 1829 (Feb. 28) - Francis Keeling Allan, Poe's doting foster
mother, dies in Richmond. She is buried in the Shockoe Hill Cemetery
on March 2. Poe obtains leave from the army and arrives in Richmond on
the evening of the day following her burial.
- 1829 (April 15) - Poe is released from the Army and applies for an
appointment to West Point. (To obtain his release, it was necessary
for Poe to provide a substitute at no expense to the government.)
- 1830 (Oct. 5) - John Allan marries Louisa Patterson. (By John
Allan's death in 1834, they will have three sons.)
- 1830 (June) - Poe enters West Point.
- 1831 (Jan. 27) - Poe, wishing to get out of West Point, refuses to
attend classes or church. He is court-martialed on February 8 and
dismissed as of March 6.
- 1831 - Poe's
Poems
is published in New York by Elam Bliss.
- 1831 (July) - Poe submits several stories to a contest sponsored
by the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. He does not win first
prize. Five of his stories are published, although without his name.
- 1831 (Aug. 1) - William Henry Leonard Poe, Edgar's older brother,
dies in Baltimore, probably of tuberculosis or cholera.
- 1833 (Oct.) - Poe receives his $50 prize for "MS. Found in a
Bottle" from the Baltimore Saturday Visitor.
- 1834 (March 27) - John Allan, Poe's foster father, dies in
Richmond, Virginia. He is buried next to his first wife, Frances, in
the Shockoe Hill Cemetery. Edgar's name is omitted from Allan's will
and Poe inherits nothing from the large estate.
- 1836 - Leaving his home in Baltimore, Poe moves to Richmond and
becomes editor of Thomas W. White's
Southern
Literary Messenger. (White was reluctant to grant Poe
the title, although quite willing to let him do the work.) Poe writes
a great many critical reviews and receives both praise and scorn for
these frank commentaries. He prints a number of his own poems and
stories, including reprints of several earlier pieces.
- 1836 (May 16) - Edgar (aged 27) and Virginia (aged 13) marry in
Richmond, Virginia. The ceremony is officiated by the Reverend Amasa
Convers, a Presbyterian minister who was also editor of the
Southern Religious Telegraph.
- 1837 (Jan.) - The Southern Literary Messenger announces
that Poe has left the position of editor.
- 1837 (Feb.) - Poe and his family move to New York.
- 1838 - Poe and his family move to Philadelphia.
- 1839 -
The
Conchologist's First Book is published in Philadelphia
by Haswell, Barrington and Haswell. Professor Thomas Wyatt secured
Poe's assistance in the book's production. Poe writes the "Preface"
and "Introduction," and perhaps provides some translation from Cuvier.
The book runs for three editions by 1845, becoming Poe's only
commercial success in book form. (Poe's association with this book has
brought charges of plagiarism from the chronology textbook by Captain
Thomas Brown, published in Glasgow in 1833.)
- 1839 (May) - Poe becomes an editor for wealthy comedian William
Evans Burton's two-year old
Gentleman's
Magazine. (The title page for volume V, beginning with
the issue for July of 1839, prominently shows the names of the editors
as "William E. Burton and Edgar A. Poe.")
- 1840 (Feb. 10) - Poe's "Journal
of Julius Rodman" (Burton's Gentleman's Magazine,
Jan. 1840, first of four installments) is mistaken as an actual
account of an expedition and is noted in a document submitted to the
U. S. Senate.
- 1840 (June 6) - Poe's
prospectus
for a new magazine appears in the Saturday Evening Post:
"Prospectus of the Penn Magazine, a monthly literary journal, to be
edited and published in the city of Philadelphia, by Edgar A. Poe --
Since resigning the conduct of The Southern Literary Messenger, at the
commencement of its third year, I have constantly held in view the
establishment of a Magazine which should retain some of the chief
features of that journal, abandoning the rest. . . . It shall be the
first and chief purpose of the Magazine now proposed, to become known
as one where may be found, at all times, and upon all subjects, an
honest and fearless opinion. This is a purpose of which no man need be
ashamed. . . .To the mechanical execution of the work the greatest
attention will be given which such a matter can require. . . The price
will be $5 per annum, payable in advance, or upon receipt of the first
number, which will be issued on the first of January, 1841" (The
Poe Log, pp. 300-301). (Poe was unable to raise the necessary
support and the first issue of the Penn never appeared. By
1841, he was forced to put his plans on hold. The final prospectus for
the Penn was printed on January 1, 1841, of which Poe sent a copy to
J. E. Snodgrass on January 17, 1841.)
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- 1841 (February 20) - The Saturday Evening Post
(Philadelphia) announces that Poe has become an editor for
Graham's
Magazine, beginning with the April issue. (Both the
Post and Graham's were owned by George Rex Graham. Volume I
of Graham's Magazine appeared as volume XVIII because, in
creating his new magazine, Graham merged Burton's Gentleman's
Magazine with the Casket. The latter, which Graham had
purchased in May of 1839, had already issued seventeen volumes by the
end of 1840. The last issue of both the Gentleman's Magazine
and the Casket are virtually identical, each bearing the
inscription of Graham's Magazine on their title pages, noted
"as a specimen of the new volume." Poe's engagement with Graham as an
editor may have been discussed as early as December of 1840. This
possibility is suggested by the fact that both of these final issues
contain Poe's story "The Man of the Crowd." Burton had stopped
printing Poe's material as of the August issue of the same year. Poe,
however, was still hoping to make real his plans for the Penn
Magazine, plans he did not abandon for several months.)
- 1841 (April) - Graham's Magazine features Poe's "Murders
in the Rue Morgue," the first modern detective story.
During Poe's tenure, the circulation of Graham's Magazine
increases from about 5,000 to nearly 37,000 subscribers, making it far
and away the most popular periodical of its day. (An abridged
translation of "Murders in the Rue Morgue" appeared on October 12,
1846 in Le Commerce, a Parisan newspaper. There, the title was
given as "L'Orange-Otang" but Poe 's name is not mentioned.)
- 1842 (March 6) - During Dickens' tour of America, Poe and Charles
Dickens arrange to meet while he is in Philadelphia. (Dickens had been
greatly impressed by Poe's ability to guess the ending of his
Barnaby Rudge. In the Saturday Evening Post for May for
1841, Poe had reviewed the work, which was being published serially in
a magazine a chapter at a time.) Dickens agrees to consider writing
for Graham's and to try to find an English publisher for Poe's
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, although nothing of
substance will ever come of either promise.
- 1842 (May) - Poe leaves the editorship of Graham's Magazine.
He is replaced by Rufus W. Griswold. In a letter to his friend F. W.
Thomas, Poe notes, "The report of my having parted with Graham, is
correct; although, in the forthcoming June number, there is no
announcement to that effect; nor had the papers any authority for the
statement made. My duties ceased with the May number. I shall continue
to contribute occasionally. . . . My reason for resigning was disgust
with the namby-pamby character of the Magazine -- a character which it
was impossible to eradicate -- I allude to the contemptible pictures,
fashion plates, music and love tales. The salary, moreover, did not
pay me for the labor which I was forced to bestow. With Graham, who is
really a very gentlemanly, although exceedingly weak man, I had no
misunderstanding" (Ostrom, Letters, p. 198). (Although Poe
complained about his pay, he would never again attain such a
relatively secure financial position.)
- 1843 (January 31) - Poe and Thomas Cottrell Clarke sign an
agreement to proceed with Poe's plans for a magazine. The original
name, The Penn, was deemed too regional sounding and the new
magazine is called The Stylus, which is, of course, a pen.
(Again, Poe found it impossible to raise sufficient interest and
capital. Although he revisited the effort from time to time until his
death, The Stylus never appeared.)
- 1843 (March 4) - A biographical notice of Poe, by Henry Beck
Hirst, is printed in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. Full of
erroneous information, presumably provided by Poe, this biography
begins to establish Poe's public image.
- 1843 (March) - Through contacts of his friend F. W. Thomas, Poe
hopes to gain a government job as a clerk, which will still leave him
with time to write. Although one of his supporters is Robert Tyler,
the son of President John Tyler, Poe fails to obtain a position.
- 1843 (June) - Poe's tale of pirate treasure, "The
Gold-Bug," wins the $100 prize from the Dollar Newspaper
(Philadelphia). So successful is the tale that a second printing of
the newspaper is required. In addition to the prize, Poe receives
substantial national attention. A theatrical production based on Poe's
story, dramatized by Silas S. Steele, is performed on August 8, 1843
at the American Theatre in Philadelphia (Mabbott, Tales and
Sketches, p. 805). (In November of 1845, a French translation, "Le
Scarabee d'or" was printed in the Revue britannique and again
in installments in La Democratie pacifique in May of 1848 and
in La Journal du Loiret in June of 1848. A pirated English
edition appeared in London around 1846.)
- 1843 (July) - Poe's
Prose
Romances is published in Philadelphia by William H.
Graham.
- 1843 (July 19) - Poe registers to study law in the office of Henry
Beck Hirst, a long-time friend (Mabbott, Poems, p. 553. The
Poe Log disputes this claim, p. 427.)
- 1843 (November 21) - Poe delivers the first of his lectures on
American Poetry, beginning in Philadelphia. The large audience
overflows the hall and reviews are generally favorable, inspiring Poe
to proceed with other performances of the lecture. (Among Poe's later
lectures are "The Poets and Poetry of America," "The Poetic Principle"
and "The Universe." The last of these became the basis for his 1848
book Eureka.)
- 1844 (April 7) - Poe and his family move to New York, where Poe
may have joined the Sunday Times as a subeditor.
- 1844 (October 7) - Poe is engaged by George Pope Morris and
Nathaniel Parker Willis as part of the staff of the
Evening
Mirror (New York). (In 1849, N. P. Willis recalled,
"Mr. Poe was employed by us, for several months, as critic and
subeditor. This was our first personal acquaintance with him. He
resided with his wife and mother at Fordham, a few miles out of town,
but was at his desk in the office, from nine in the morning till the
evening paper went to press. . . . he was invariably punctual and
industrious." See N. P. Willis, "Death of Edgar Allan Poe" from the
Home Journal, October 20, 1849, reprinted in Carlson,
Recognition of Poe, pp. 36-41.)
- 1845 (Feb. 22) - Poe becomes an editor of
The Broadway
Journal. By July 12, he is the sole editor and by
October 24, the sole owner as well. Poe finally has full control of a
magazine, but one already laboring perilously under serious debts.
- 1845 (Jan. 29) - Poe's most famous poem,
"The Raven"
is published in the New York Evening Mirror, where it becomes a
sensational hit. It is widely reprinted and brings Poe considerable
praise and fame, although financially he receives only about $15 for
the initial printing. (Many stories have been told of the writing of
"The Raven." Indeed, the list of people who claimed to be present at
its infancy seemed to grow with each reminiscence published after
Poe's death. Poe's explanation of the poem's creation, "The
Philosophy of Composition," is largely fictional, by Poe's
own admission. The most probable account is that Poe wrote the poem in
late 1844, while staying at the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Henry
Brennan in New York.)
- 1846 (Jan. 3) - Buried under with financial problems, The
Broadway Journal ceases publication.
- 1846 (April) -
Godey's
Lady's Book publishes the first installment of Poe's
"The Literati of New York City: Some Honest Opinions at Random
Respecting Their Authorial Merits, with Occasional Words of
Personality." Copies of Godey's sell unusually well, requiring
an additional printing. Poe publishes five additional installments
before ending the series with the October issue.
- 1846 (about May) - Poe moves his family to a cottage in Fordham,
New York. (This quaint little house, now cared for by the Bronx
Historical Society, is open to the public.)
- 1847 (Jan. 30) - Virginia Poe dies of tuberculosis in Fordham, New
York. She is entombed on February 2 in the Valentine family vault in
the Dutch Reformed Church at Fordham. (The bed in which she died may
still be seen in this house. The tops of the posts at the foot of the
bed are cut off so that it will fit under the sloping roof.)
- 1848 (about July 15) - Poe's prose poem
Eureka
is published by George Putnam. Criticism is mixed, some lauding it as
containing brilliant insights and some denouncing it as pantheisic.
Poe denies charges of pantheism. The publishers do not hold Poe's
enthusiam for the work and print only 500 copies, of which an unknown
number were actually sold. There is insufficient interest to justify
Poe's much-hoped-for second edition.
- 1848 (November) - Poe begins to court New England widow and
poetess Sarah Helen Whitman. After considerable effort, he manages to
secure a promise of marriage. Mrs. Whitman is concerned about his
reputation for drinking. Poe pledges to be temperate.
- 1848 (December 23) - Poe fails to meet the condition of total
abstinence from drinking and Mrs. Whitman calls off the engagement.
- 1849 (June 29) - Poe begins a southern lecture tour to raise money
and support for his proposed magazine, The Stylus. He arrives
in Richmond on July 14.
- 1849 (July?) - Poe meets with the now widowed Elmira Royster
Shelton. Rekindling the youthful romance, Poe asks her to marry him.
Mrs. Shelton is initially hesitant, but by August 25 has apparently
accepted Poe's proposal. (By remarrying, Mrs. Shelton would have had
to give up a large portion of the inheritance left by her husband, as
stipulated in his will.)
- 1849 (August 27) - Poe joins the Sons of Temperance, Shockoe Hill
Division, No. 54. (This society required that its members abstain
completely from the drinking of any alcoholic beverages.)
- 1849 (Sept. 27) - Poe leaves Richmond, perhaps aboard the
steamship Pocahontas. He arrives in Baltimore on September 28.
- 1849 (Oct. 7) - Edgar Allan Poe
dies in
Baltimore in the Washington College Hospital (later Church Home and
Hospital).
- 1849 (Oct. 8 or 9) - Edgar Allan Poe is
buried in his
grandfather's lot in the Westminster Burying Ground. The ceremony is
officiated by the Reverend William T. D. Clemm.
- 1849 (Oct. 9) - Rufus Wilmot
Griswold's
slanderous obituary of Poe, the so-called "Ludwig" article, is
published in the New York Tribune. It is widely copied.
- 1850 - The first two volumes of Griswold's collected
Works of
the Late Edgar Allan Poe are published. Volume I
contains a preface "To the Reader" by
Maria Clemm,
Poe's mother-in-law, announcing that Poe himself had selected Griswold
as his literary executor and describing the edition as having been put
together for her benefit. (There is no other substantiation for the
idea that Poe selected Griswold and it may or may not be true. Despite
the claim that the books were "for my benefit," Maria Clemm saw none
of the profits gathered by Griswold and the publishers.) By the end of
October, a third volume is added, containing Griswold's infamous
"Memoir of the Author." In 1856, the fourth and final volume of
Griswold's edition of Poe's works is published. (In subsequent
editions, Maria Clemm's preface was removed and Griswold's "Memoir"
shifted to volume I.)
- 1857 (Aug. 27) - Poe's literary nemesis, Rufus Wilmot Griswold,
dies. His slanderous biographical memoir of Poe continues to accompany
the standard edition of Poe's works until 1875, selling as many as
several thousand copies a year.
- 1860 -
Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe's former fiancée, publishes a
defense of Poe in a book called Edgar Poe and His Critics.
- 1871 (Feb. 16) - Maria Clemm dies in Baltimore in the Church Home
and Hospital (the same hospital in which Edgar Allan Poe died 22 years
earlier.)
- 1874 (June 14) - Rosalie Poe, Edgar's younger sister, dies at the
Epiphany Church Home in Washington, D.C. Found in her hands is an
envelope containing a check for $50, sent by a philanthropist hoping
to ease her financial plight. She is buried with the nuns in a section
of Rock Creek Cemetery. (Her tombstone erroneously reads 1812-1874.
Rosalie was born in 1811.)
- 1874 - A new edition of Poe's collected works appears with a
favorable memoir by
John Henry Ingram.
- 1875 (Nov. 17) - Poe's Memorial
Grave is
dedicated in Baltimore with elaborate ceremonies.
- 1880 - John Henry Ingram publishes his full-length biography of
Poe: Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters and Opinions (London, 2
vols).
- 1885 (May 4) - The Actors' Monument, a sculpture by Richard Henry
Park, is unveiled in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The
ceremonies include a presentation by Edwin Booth, the most respected
actor of his day. (In 1994, this statue was moved to the Poe Museum in
Richmond, Virginia.)
- 1910 - Poe is inducted into the Hall of
Fame in New
York.
Bibliography:
- Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, Collected Works of Edgar Allan, Volume
I, Poems, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1969.
- Ostrom, John Ward, ed., The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe, 2
vols, New York: Gordian Press Inc., 1966.
- Phillips, Mary Elizabeth, Edgar Allan Poe, the Man, 2 vols,
Chicago: John C. Winston, 1926.
- Quinn, Arthur Hobson, Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography,
New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1941.
- Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary
Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall and Co.,
1987
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