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When Edgar was younger (a child) he watched his mom died because she had T.B.
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the family moved to England and edgar goes to school
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the Allans move back to America
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Edgar first poem at 15 years old
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he went to college in the middle of the year/ was a new college
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after becoming in dept while in college, Poe gets in an arguement with his foster father, so his foster dad doesn't give him any money to pay the money back
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Poe goes to the army and becomes an author/ but in the army his name is Edgar A. Perry
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Frances Allan dies of Tuberclosis
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Also publishes his second book of poerty " Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems".
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Poe tries to kick himself out of school by not going to class and chapel, Poe is court-martialed and dismissed. Poe publishes several more anonymous short stories + another book of poems
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Poe's older brother Henery dies of Tuberclosis or cholera at 27
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edgar gets married to his first cousin Virginia Clemms while she was 13yrs old
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Poe moves his new wife and mother-in-law to New York and then to Philadelphia.
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Poe's first novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, is published
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While singing at the piano, Virginia begins to bleed from her mouth, a symptom of untreated tuberculosis. Her illness grows progressively worse.
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Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx. SO Poe starts drinking A LOT
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Poe proposes to a poet named Sarah Helen Whitman, who agrees on the condition that he quit drinking.Poe can't live up to the promise
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Poe travels to Richmond and convinces his childhood sweetheart, Elmira Royster Shelton, to become his fiancée.