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Edgar Allan Poe. . ( m. 1836) . 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.
- Virginia Eliza Clemm, August 15, 1822, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
- January 30, 1847 (aged 24), Bronx County, New York, U.S.
- Tuberculosis
- Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Eliza Poe was a renowned traveling actress and mother of Edgar Allan Poe. Unfortunately, she succumbed to tuberculosis at the age of 24, when little Edgar was only 2 years old. Her acting legacy most likely inspired Poe’s dramatic performances of his most famous pieces, which was a major source of income and was ultimately one of the ways Poe ...
179 years ago today, it was OK to marry your underage first cousin — and Poe did exactly that with Virginia Eliza Clemm. Like so many aspects of Edgar Allan Poe’s life (including his death), the nature of his marriage to his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Eliza Clemm, is shrouded in mystery. The two first met in 1829, when Clemm was seven ...
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Oct 1, 2013 · Edgar Allan Poe's Women. Virginia Eliza Clemm was seven years old when she met her future husband, her cousin, Edgar Allan Poe. At the time, Edgar had been discharged from the army and came to live with the poor family. Little Virginia acted as a messenger between him and a young woman in the neighborhood he had become smitten with.
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Fordham, New York. Date of Death: January 30, 1847. Place of Burial: Baltimore, Maryland. Cemetery Name: Westminster Burial Ground. Described as having bright eyes, and dark brown hair, Virginia’s face was “always animated and vivacious.”. Virginia lived in Baltimore with her grandmother, mother, and cousin William Henry Poe (Edgar’s ...
Oct 23, 2011 · III. POE’S WIFE . Edgar Poe's future wife, Virginia Eliza Clemm, was the third child of William Clemm, Jr., and his second wife, the poet's aunt, Maria Poe Clemm. Virginia was born in Baltimore on August 16, 1822, and baptized on November 15, the day her elder sister, Virginia Maria (or Sarah), was buried. As a child she called herself ...
At the end of January 1847, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe—the 24-year-old wife (and cousin) of Edgar Allan Poe—succumbed to tuberculosis in the couple’s cottage on the outskirts of New York City, in what is now the Bronx. Poe was devastated. The six years during which Virginia battled the disease were hard on Poe.
