Family
Mr. Poe has a wife (Polly) and two children, Edgar and Albert. They appear in The Bad Beginning. The names of his two children is a reference to Edgar Albert Guest, keeping with the trend throughout the books of literary allusions. He also has a sister named Eleonora Poe, a reporter for the Daily Punctilio, which references to the short story Eleonora written by Edgar Allan Poe himself.
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