Edgar Allan Poe (In Our Time)
1845 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Poe (1809-1849), the American author who is famous for his Gothic tales of horror, madness and the dark interiors of the mind, such as The Fall of the House of Usher and The Tell-Tale Heart. As well as tapping at our deepest fears in poems such as The Raven, Poe pioneered detective fiction with his character C. Auguste Dupin i
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1845
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)