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Edgar Allan Poe cottage. Often called “New York’s chief lit- erary shrine,” this little cottage at Fordham in the Bronx is the place where Poe’s wife, Virginia, died of tuberculosis during the terrible winter of 1846–47 when she and Poe were desperately poor and close to starving. Poe wrote “The Raven” and “The Pit and the Pendulum,” among other great works. He was paid $10 for “The Raven,” immediately recognized as a work of genius when it appeared, and it was a year and a half before he pried loose his money from the New York Mirror. |