Credit for this entry to:
Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 - 1849, writer and poet, was a pupil at the Manor House School (1817 - 1820), which stood on this site.
London Borough of Hackney
N16, Stoke Newington Church Street, 172
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Edgar Allan Poe - N16 - Plaque 1
Boarding School. First mentioned in 1813, but probably built some years befor...
Author and poet. Born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, he added Allan to h...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Edgar Allan Poe - N16 - Plaque 1
Shoreditch Borough Council took over Shoreditch Vestry and was itself taken o...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Edgar Allan Poe - N16 - Plaque 1
Poe Unveiled by Steven Berkoff on 4 June 2011. The Flicker Club The Edgar All...
1851 - 60, Charles Dickens, novelist, lived in Tavistock House near this site.
