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That Time a 26 Year Old Edgar Allan Poe Married His 13 Year Old Cousin (2017x251)

Udgivelsesdato: Okt 24, 2017

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Edgar Allan Poe and His Quest to be Court Martialed https://youtu.be/iT7oHejmbZw?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR When Did Humans Start Wearing Clothes? https://youtu.be/RA2xntE-kvE?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 In this video: Poe met his bride-to-be, Virginia Clemm, when she was 7 years old, and he was 20, shortly after his mother’s death in 1829. Their parents, his natural father (David Poe) and her mother (Maria Clemm), were siblings, and Poe had moved into the Clemm home briefly before his time at West Point was to begin. Being so close in time to the death of his mother, some authors have opined that he transferred his feelings for his mother to his Aunt Maria, and later to his cousin. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/26-year-old-edgar-allan-poe-married-13-year-old-cousin/ Sources: http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/xauthors/Poe.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe#CITEREFMeyers1992 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3002115/ http://poestories.com/read/ligeia http://www.eapoe.org/people/poevc.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PoeFamilyTree.svg http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literature/Lore/TheRaven.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Eliza_Clemm_Poe http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/02/13/virginia_poe_edgar_allan_poe_s_wife_s_acrostic_valentine.html Image Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Virginia_Poe.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edgar_Allan_Poe_portrait.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FSOsgood-1848.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_Ellet_cropped.jpg