Edgar Allan Poe’s life ... was also marked by tragedy. Poe’s overwhelming sense of helplessness in the face of Virginia’s illness and eventual death from tuberculosis in 1847 only deepened his ...

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It currently houses an exhibit about Poe’s childhood in Richmond. Although Edgar Allan Poe never lived in the Old Stone House ... s significance since the house was already appearing in guidebooks as ...

The Poe Museum has the world’s largest collection of Poe memorabilia, ephemera, and artifacts. The Poe Museum holds more of Edgar Allan Poe’s possessions than any other institution. Researchers can ...

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Adam Kirsch on the people cheering for humanity’s end] In the mid-19th century, as astronomers were starting to understand the true nature of comets and meteors, writers began to imagine what might ...