Edgar Allan Poe had moved to a…
July 1847 CE
That home, since relocated to a park near the southeast corner of the Grand Concourse and Kingsbridge Road, is now known as the Poe Cottage.
Nearby he befriended the Jesuits at St. John's College, now Fordham University.
Virginia had died at the cottage on January 30, 1847.
Biographers and critics often suggest that Poe's frequent theme of the "death of a beautiful woman" stems from the repeated loss of women throughout his life, including his wife.
Poe is increasingly unstable after his wife's death.
He attempts to court poet Sarah Helen Whitman, who lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Their engagement fails, purportedly because of Poe's drinking and erratic behavior.
There is also strong evidence that Whitman's mother intervened and did much to derail their relationship.
Poe now returns to Richmond and resumes a relationship with his childhood sweetheart Sarah Elmira Royster.
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