LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Mrs. Allan was affectionate and urged her husband to adopt Edgar.
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Both parents were eager to adopt Edgar.
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Mr. Allan was the one who fought to adopt Edgar.
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There was already 5 foster children living there.
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Detailed explanation-1: -He was close to his foster mother, Frances, but never with to foster father, who always thought Edgar was a punk, shamefully ungrateful for all the couple did for him. From 1815 to 1820, the family lived in England, where young Edgar got a good education at a school outside of London.
Detailed explanation-2: -Separated from his siblings, Poe was fostered by John and Frances Valentine Allan, a successful tobacco merchant and his wife, in Richmond, Virginia. He would later go on to write “The Raven, ” “The Tell-Tale Heart, ” and several volumes of poetry.
Detailed explanation-3: -1829 (Feb. 28)-Francis Keeling Allan, Poe’s doting foster mother, dies in Richmond. She is buried in the Shockoe Hill Cemetery on March 2. Poe obtains leave from the army and arrives in Richmond on the evening of the day following her burial.
Detailed explanation-4: -The couple were first cousins and publicly married when Virginia Clemm was 13 and Poe was 27. Biographers disagree as to the nature of the couple’s relationship. Though their marriage was loving, some biographers suggest they viewed one another more like a brother and sister.