The Truth About Edgar Allan Poe's Wife
The same blog further explains that some think the marriage was never actually consummated. (As Morehead State Public Radio puts it, "Biographers disagree as to the nature of the couple's relationship.") Others say the couple began (happily) to share a marital bed once she turned 16.
Just as people of that time married at a young age, death often came at a young age. Virginia Poe was one example. In January 1842, Virginia was singing and playing the piano when she began to cough up blood.
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