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.
Annabel Lee
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"Annabel Lee" is the last complete poem composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. The narrator, who fell in love w
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
…Her struggles with illness and death are believed to have affected his poetry and prose, where dying young women appear as a frequent motif, as in "Annabel Lee", "The Raven", and "Ligeia". Virginia Eliza Clemm was born in 1822 and named after an older sister who had died at age two only ten days earlier. Her…
Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, Philadelphia, January 1850
Poe's manuscript for "Annabel Lee", Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library