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Today we took a trip to the Bronx to visit Poe’s Cottage with some homeschooling friends. This was Edgar Allen Poe’s last residence (after that he traveled around until his death). It is a very small house with low ceilings (to conserve heat). Here was where he wrote Annabelle Lee, The Bells, The Cask of Amontillado, Landor’s Cottage, and the Domain of Arnheim. He live there with his wife, Virginia, his mother-in-law, and Mary Louisa Shoe(?), who was Virginia’s nurse when Virginia was dying of t

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Poe’s Cottage Tour