Edgar Allan Poe's life at a glance

By elockhart

  • Birth

    Birth
    Poe was born in Boston,MA, where his mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe had been employed as an actress.

  • Tragedy

    Tragedy
    Elizabeth Arnold Poe,Edgar's biological mother, died,and Edgar was taken into the family of John Allan, tabacco-merchants.

  • Education

    Education
    After schools in England and Richmond, Edgar registered at the University of Virginia. He lived in room 13. Also, Poe became an active member of the Jefferson Literary Society, and he passed his courses with good grades.

  • Defending the U.S

    Defending the U.S
    On this day, Poe enlisted in The United States Army as a private. He used the name Edgar A. Perry. After two years, he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant-major and discharged from the Army and went to Baltimore where he lived with his aunt,Mrs. Maria Poe Clemm, untill he received an appointment from the Army.

  • Keeping it in the Family

    Keeping it in the Family
    Poe had the December issue of 1835, and he began editing the Southern Literary Messenger for Thomas W. White in Richmond. At this time, Poe married his cousin, Virginia Clemm in Richmond.

  • Editor

    Editor
    Edgar was an editor of Burton's Gentlemen's Magazine from July, 1839 to June, 1840 and also an editor of Graham's Magazine from April,1841 to May 1824.

  • Famous work

    Famous work
    In this year,Poe writes "The Murder in the Rue Morgue". On April 20, this was published in Graham's Magazine. Some readers found the description gruesome and others excepted this.

  • Publish

    Publish
    Poe became famous with the success of his poem "The Raven" ,and in march of the same year, Wiley and Putnam issued Tales by Edgar A. Poe, and The Raven.

  • A Tragic Year

    A Tragic Year
    The Broadway Journal failed, and Virginia became very ill. After his wife's death, Poe yielded to a weakness for drink. He could not have a little alcohol without a change in his personality.

  • Death in the Family

    Death in the Family
    Poe's wife, Virginia,died of tuberculosis.

  • Poe's life comes to an end

    Poe's life comes to an end
    After a few lectures in different places, Poe was found in Baltimore in a unconscious condition and taken to a hospital where he later died. He was buried in the yard of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland.