Editing Edgar Allan Poe (section)

===The Bronx===
The ''Broadway Journal'' failed in 1846,<ref name=Sova34/> and Poe then moved to a cottage in [[Fordham, Bronx|Fordham, New York]], in [[the Bronx]]. That home, now known as the [[Edgar Allan Poe Cottage]], was relocated in later years to a park near the southeast corner of the [[Grand Concourse (Bronx)|Grand Concourse]] and Kingsbridge Road. Nearby, Poe befriended the [[Jesuits]] at St. John's College, now [[Fordham University]].<ref>Schroth, Raymond A. ''Fordham: A History and Memoir''. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008: 22–25.</ref> Virginia died at the cottage on January 30, 1847.<ref name="Poe Cottage">{{harvnb|BronxHistoricalSociety.org|2007}}.</ref> Biographers and critics often suggest that Poe's frequent theme of the "death of a beautiful woman" stems from the repeated loss of women throughout his life, including his wife.{{sfn|Weekes|2002|p=149}}

Poe was increasingly unstable after his wife's death. He attempted to court the poet [[Sarah Helen Whitman]], who lived in [[Providence, Rhode Island]]. Their engagement failed, purportedly because of Poe's drinking and erratic behavior. There is also strong evidence that Whitman's mother intervened and did much to derail the relationship.{{sfn|Benton|1987|p=19}} Poe then returned to Richmond and resumed a relationship with his childhood sweetheart Sarah Elmira Royster.{{sfn|Quinn|1998|p=628}}