LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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His foster family, the Allans.
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He lived on his own with his pet cat, Pluto.
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He moved into his dorm at the University of Virginia.
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He moved in with his aunt Maria and cousin Virginia.
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Detailed explanation-1: -His father left the family early in Poe’s life, and his mother passed away from tuberculosis when he was only three. Separated from his brother William and sister Rosalie, Poe went to live with John and Frances Allan, a successful tobacco merchant and his wife, in Richmond, Virginia.
Detailed explanation-2: -Maria Clemm was both aunt and mother-in-law to Edgar Allan Poe. After Edgar Allan Poe’s final break with his foster father, he sought refuge in the Baltimore home of his aunt, Maria Poe Clemm. She would be a guiding and stabilizing influence on Edgar for the rest of his life.
Detailed explanation-3: -Edgar Allan Poe, (born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.-died October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland), American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre.
Detailed explanation-4: -Poe lived with his aunt in a small duplex on North Amity Street in Baltimore from about 1832 until the fall of 1835. During this period, he composed poetry, wrote literary criticism and penned some of his earliest short stories like “MS.