Searching for a Family

Episode 296 - Searching for a Family 

Link to The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe  67 minuteshttps://archive.org/details/TheLovesOfEdgarAllanPoe

Link to clip or Jane Darwell in “The Grapes of Wrath”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJLvgWx-h54

Link to clip of Jane Darwell and Julie Andrews in “Mary Poppins”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Wb_sTdJV

William and Maria Clemm had three children together:
Henry (born September 10, 1818)
Virginia Marie (born August 22, 1820, who died in infancy)
Virginia Eliza (born August 13, 1822)

Now let me try and explain the connection to Edgar Allan Poe and his somewhat problematic marriage - at least by the standards of many people today.

This has got to be one of the most controversial subjects regarding Poe - the fact that he married his much younger cousin. Virginia Eliza Clemm. - I guess you could say that the relationship began as a familial bond. Poe first met Virginia when she was seven years old, and he was twenty. Over time, their relationship evolved into a romantic one, culminating in their marriage when Virginia was 13 and Poe was 27 - a relationship that many scholars believe was more like one between siblings that a romantic relationship.

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