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Virginia Eliza Poe (née Clemm; August 15, 1822 – January 30, 1847) 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 nature of the couple's relationship.
"Berenice" is a short horror story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1835. The story is narrated by Egaeus, who is preparing to marry his cousin Berenice. He tends to fall into periods of intense focus, during which he seems to separate himself from the outside world.
In 1835, at age 26, Poe obtained a license to marry his cousin Virginia Clemm, who was then aged 13; they were married for 11 years until her death. An 1845 portrait of Poe by Samuel Stillman Osgood The cottage in the Fordham section of the Bronx , where Poe spent his last years
Here are all the ways "Fall of the house of Usher" references Edgar Allan Poe, ... Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, who he married. ... cousin Virginia Eliza Poe, whom he married when she was 13 and he ...
[citation needed] The elder Edgar Allan married his own first cousin Virginia Clemm, and the elder Neilson married Virginia's half-sister Josephine Emily Clemm. The six brothers' relationship to the author, through their grandfather Neilson, would be second cousins twice removed (though to one who had perceived the elder Neilson to be the elder ...
Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, poet and literary critic. ... However, love was also an important aspect of Poe’s life. After all, he did marry his first cousin ...
The narrator, then, is Poe himself, living with his young cousin (soon-to-be wife) and his aunt. The abrupt ending, with the narrator's new love only named in the third to last paragraph, is somewhat unconvincing if this is Poe's attempt at justifying his own feelings. Poe considered the tale "not ended so well as it might be".
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1822–1847) was the wife of Edgar Allan Poe.The couple were first cousins and married when Virginia Clemm was 13 and Poe was 27. Some biographers have suggested that the couple's relationship was more like that between brother and sister than like husband and wife and that they never consummated their marriage.