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Rosalie Mackenzie Poe (December 1810 – July 21, 1874) was an American poet and the sister of Edgar Allan Poe.
Rosalie Mackenzie Poe, née Rosalie Poe, was the estranged sister of Edgar Allan Poe. Rosalie, born approximately December 1810 in Norfolk, Virginia, was the last of Elizabeth Arnold Poe’s children ( Mabbott 520 ).
Rosalie appears to have led a relatively comfortable and stable existence in the Mackenzie home until the Civil War left the family destitute. Thereafter, her story becomes pure pitable tragedy. The remaining members of her foster family sent her to her Poe relatives in Baltimore.
He taunted Poe by referring to Rosalie as ``your half sister.'' Mrs. Poe, who was one of the most popular American actresses of her day, was in desperate financial and physical straits when she and Egar arrived in Norfolk in the fall of 1810.
Rosalie Mackenzie Poe. When Rosalie Mackenzie Poe was born in December 1810, in Norfolk, Virginia, United States, her father, David Poe Jr, was 26 and her mother, Elizabeth Arnold, was 22. She lived in Henrico, Virginia, United States in 1850.
Rosalie Mackenzie Poe (December 1810 – July 21, 1874) was an American poet. She was the sister of Edgar Allan Poe.
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Rosalie Mackenzie Poe, née Rosalie Poe, was the estranged sister of Edgar Allan Poe. Rosalie, born approximately December 1810 in Norfolk, Virginia, was the last of Elizabeth Arnold Poe’s children (Mabbott 520).
