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Elizabeth Arnold Poe dies of tuberculosis in Richmond, Virginia. Within days, David Poe also dies of tuberculosis. With no parents to take care of them, the three children of the family are split up.
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his father left orphaning him at the age of three.
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The Allan family sails to London, where Edgar enrolls in school.
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Poe enrolls midway through the academic year at the University of Virginia
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After running up a $2,000 gambling debt while at college, Poe gets into an argument with his foster father when John Allan refuses to give him money to settle the debt.
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Poe's first novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, is published.
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Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx.
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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, and Whitman calls off the engagement a month later.
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Poe travels to Richmond and convinces his childhood sweetheart, Elmira Royster Shelton, to become his fiancée.
