Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
(1822-1847)
Wife of Edgar Allan Poe
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Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (née Clemm; August 15, 1822 – January 30, 1847) was the wife of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The couple were first cousins and married when Virginia Clemm was 13 and Poe was 27. Biographers disagree as to the nature of the couple's relationship. Though their marriage was loving, some biographers suggest they viewed one another more like a brother and sister. In January 1842 she contracted tuberculosis, growing worse for five years until she died of the disease at the age of 24 in the family's cottage, then outside New York City.
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22 August 1822 Baltimore, Maryland
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30 January 1847 (aged 24)
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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