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Virginia Eliza Poe ( née Clemm; August 15, 1822 – January 30, 1847) was the wife of 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 nature of the couple's relationship.
Written by Rob Velella, August 15, 2009, as part of “ The Edgar A. Poe Calendar: 365 Days of the Master of the Macabre and the Mystery “. Happy birthday to Virginia Eliza Clemm, who was born August 15, 1822.*. She would have been 195 today.
Born Virginia Eliza Clemm, Aug 22, 1822; dau. of Maria (Poe) Clemm (sister of Edgar Allan Poe 's father, David Poe) and William Clemm Jr. (1779–1826); died Jan 30, 1847, in NY; m. her cousin Edgar Allan Poe (the writer), May 16, 1836. Married at 13; showed 1st sign of onset of TB at 20 (Jan 20, 1842); became an invalid; had a powerful effect ...
