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.
Lenore (poem)
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"Lenore" is a poem by the American author Edgar Allan Poe. It began as a different poem, "A Paean", and was not published as "Lenore" until 1843.
Illustration by Henry Sandham for an 1886 edition of the poem
