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Edgar Allan Poe: Annie Richmond
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In 1837, Poe leaves the Messenger and Richmond to move to New York City, where his financial situation only worsens, and in 1838 the family moves to Philadelphia. That same year, his first book of fiction, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, is published. In 1839, “The Haunted Place” and “Ligeia” appears in print.
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In 1833 Poe lived in Baltimore with his father's sister Mrs. Maria Clemm. After winning a prize of $50 for the short story 'MS Found in a Bottle,' he started career as a staff member of various magazines, among others the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond (1835-37), Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in Philadelphia (1839-40), and Graham's Magazine (1842-43). During these years he wrote some of his best-known stories. Southern Literary Messenger he had to leave partly due to his alcoholism.
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In 1829, Poe’s foster mother, Frances Allan, died in Richmond, and though he was given leave from the Army, he was not able to get there until a day later. Soon after, he won release from his enlistment obligation by providing a substitute, applied to enter West Point, and ended up moving in with an aunt in Baltimore. His second book, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems, was published in Baltimore in 1829. He spent part of the next year at West Point, but deliberately got himself courtmartialed and dismissed in 1831. That year his third book, Poems, appeared in New York, supported by subscriptions from fellow cadets.
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Thoroughly trained in the classics and in the rhetoric and aesthetics of the Scottish common-sense school of philosophers, Poe was, according to the critic Robert D. Jacobs, indeed a southerner by temperament and inclination. Many of his formative years were spent in the southern cities of Richmond and Baltimore, the latter being the home of his blood relatives. Choosing a literary career after the death of his foster father, Poe began to contribute critical reviews to the Richmond
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In 1848 Poe began looking for a wife. Muddy and he had come to a consensus that he needed the stability of married life to give him a purpose, and he courted a number of different women. The women whom he showed interest in during this time include Jane Locke, Nancy Richmond, Sarah Helen Whitman, and Elmira Royster.
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Poe suffered from bouts of depression and madness, and he attempted suicide in 1848. In September the following year he disappeared for three days after a drink at a birthday party and on his way to visit his new fiancée in Richmond. He turned up in delirious condition in Baltimore gutter and died on October 7, 1849.
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