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Edgar was born on January 19, 1809 this is where he starts his unexpected journey d s born in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
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The Allan family had Poe baptized in the Episcopal Church in 1812. John Allan alternately spoiled and aggressively disciplined his foster son.
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The family, including Poe and Allan's wife, Frances Valentine Allan, sailed to Britain in 1815.
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Poe attended the grammar school in Irvine, Scotland (where John Allan was born) for a short period in 1815, before rejoining the family in London in 1816.
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There he studied at a boarding school in Chelsea until summer 1817. He was subsequently entered at the Reverend John Bransby’s Manor House School at Stoke Newington, then a suburb four miles (6 km) north of London.
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His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".
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in Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin.
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In January 1845 Poe published his poem, "The Raven", to instant success.
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He began planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced
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October 7, 1849 (aged 40) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
