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Ligitimate or Not? Married 13-year-old cousin?

 
 
Reply Tue 14 Aug, 2012 07:38 pm

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Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move among several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845 Poe published his poem, "The Raven", to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years after its publication. He began planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.[3]

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Reply Tue 14 Aug, 2012 07:47 pm
@oristarA,
He wasn't the only one, although it would be illegal now. Not so much the cousin, but the age thing.
oristarA
 
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Reply Wed 15 Aug, 2012 05:40 am
@Ceili,
Ceili wrote:

He wasn't the only one, although it would be illegal now. Not so much the cousin, but the age thing.


Thank you Ceili.
America was not a lawless land then, wasn't it?
13 was too young. I wonder whether David has the interest to express his opinion on legal base.
BillRM
 
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Reply Wed 15 Aug, 2012 06:07 am
@oristarA,
The lifespans were a great deal shorter then it is now for one thing,

You have big families starting at a young age knowing that less then half of the children will likely even reached adulthood.

Another case of imposing the morality of today to conditions and a time they do not fit.

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