Eliza Hopkins Poe
Elizabeth Eliza Arnold Hopkins Poe was an English-born American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Poe. - AsNotedIn
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- Son: Edgar Allan Poe
Elizabeth Eliza Arnold Hopkins Poe was an English-born American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Poe. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1787/00/00 | In the spring of 1787, Elizabeth "Eliza" Arnold is born in London to Henry and Elizabeth Arnold, a stage actress. | Born | |||||
| 1796/01/03 | Nine year old Eliza Arnold, the future mother of Edgar Allen Poe, arrives in Boston from England with her mother. | Life | Long Wharf and Customhouse Block | Boston | |||
| 1796/02/00 | Eliza Arnold and her mother, Elizabeth, move into a boarding house at 14 State St (now 28 State St, demolished). | Home | |||||
| 1796/04/00 | Eliza debuts on the Boston stage in David Garrick's farce "Miss in Her Teens". "Miss Arnold, in Miss Biddy, ... Although a miss of only nine years old, her powers as an Actress will do credit to any of her sex of maturer age." - Portland Herald | Actress | |||||
| 1802/06/00 | In the summer of 1802, Eliza Arnold marries Charles Hopkins. Hopkins died three years later in October 1805, possibly of yellow fever. | Bride | |||||
| 1807/05/27 | "The Curfew" is presented "For the Benefit of Mr and Mrs Poe". | Health | |||||
| 1811/10/11 | Eliza Poe makes her last performance, playing Countess Wintersen in a play called The Stranger. | Actress | |||||
| 1811/11/29 | Richmond Theater announces a benefit performance for Mrs Poe. A local publication, the Enquirer reports: On this night, Mrs Poe, lingering on the bed of disease and surrounded by her children, asks your assistance and asks it perhaps for the last time. | Health | |||||
| 1811/12/08 | Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe dies at the age of twenty-four, surrounded by her children. It is generally believed she died of tuberculosis. She is buried at St John's Episcopal Church in Richmond. | Died | St John's Episcopal Church | Richmond |
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