ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Today in 1836-Writer Edgar Allan Poe (26) married his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm, although her age was publicly listed as 21. They honeymooned in Petersburg, Virginia.

Detailed explanation-2: -Edgar and Virginia were married in 1836. She was 13 years old and he was 27 years old. In 1842, Virginia became ill with tuberculosis. She died of the disease on January 30, 1847, at the age of 24.

Detailed explanation-3: -“I was a child and she was a child, ” Poe wrote in “Annabel Lee, ” his late-life poem seemingly inspired by his marriage. In fact, Poe was 27 when, in May of 1836, he wed Virginia Clemm in a boarding-house parlor. She was not quite 14, an exceptionally young bride even by the standards of their day.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Her name was Virginia Clemm, and she was his cousin. When Poe, age 27, married her, she was just 13. One of the most scandalous details of the biography of Edgar Allan Poe, author of horror stories and dark gothic poetry, was his marriage. Marrying your barely teenaged first cousin is the stuff of crude jokes today.