Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe

Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe 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. In 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. Poe was involved in a...