Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. P. Willis, was an American writer, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Portrait of Willis c. mid-1850s
A young Nathaniel Parker Willis
American Scenery by N. P. Willis with illustration by William Henry Bartlett, 1840
Willis became the highest-paid magazine writer in America.
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
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Virginia Eliza Poe was the wife of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The couple were first cousins and publicly married when Virginia Clemm was 13 and Poe was 27. Biographers disagree as to the nat
Virginia Poe, as painted after her death
Virginia and Edgar's marriage certificate
Virginia's handwritten Valentine poem to her husband
Virginia Poe endured the latter part of her illness at this cottage in the Bronx, New York, shown here in 1900.