Poe must have been a forgery. For Poe, the result was disastrous. His reputation was tainted and he was excluded from the New York literary salons. Although Poe and Osgood never saw each other after , his relationship with her — which he called an amour — is generally considered a meaningful one. The rejected Ellet persisted in her attacks on Poe until his death. The affair was resolved in a manner appropriate to the time — within four years the three main parties were dead.
The cottage was small and simple: it had on its first floor a sitting room and kitchen and its unheated second floor had a bedroom and a study. It is known today as Poe Cottage.
Virginia was by this point an invalid, and Poe was chronically broke but provided as well as he could and despite the scandals involving his attention to other women no one doubted his devotion to his wife.
Poe became a workaholic, churning out stories, poems, essays, reviews, whatever he could get, to pay the bills and try to keep Virginia healthy. Her symptoms included irregular appetite, flushed cheeks, unstable pulse, night sweats, high fever, sudden chills, shortness of breath, chest pains, coughing and spitting up blood. As Virginia was dying, the family received many visitors. Virginia was tended to for a time by friend year-old Marie Louise Shew, who had learned medical care from her father and her husband, both doctors.
Kindest — dearest friend — My poor Virginia still lives, although failing fast and now suffering much pain. May God grant her life until she sees you and thanks you once again!
Her bosom is full to overflowing — like my own — with a boundless — inexpressible gratitude to you. Lest she may never see you more — she bids me say that she sends you her sweetest kiss of love and will die blessing you. But come — oh come tomorrow! Not surprisingly, he became sick for months, suffering from depression and an irregular heartbeat. The funeral was February 2, Six years ago, a wife, whom I loved as no man ever loved before, ruptured a blood vessel in singing.
Her life was despaired of. I took leave of her forever and underwent all the agonies of her death. She recovered partially and I again hoped…. At the end of a year the vessel broke again. I went through precisely the same scene. Again in about a year afterward. Then again — again — again and even once again at varying intervals. Each time I felt all the agonies of her death — and at each accession of the disorder I loved her more dearly and clung to her life with more desperate pertinacity.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. On January 30, , Clemm succumbed, following 11 years of marriage to Poe. Ligeia grew ill. The wild eyes blazed with a too — too glorious effulgence; the pale fingers became of the transparent waxen hue of the grave, and the blue veins upon the lofty forehead swelled and sank impetuously with the tides of the gentle emotion. I saw that she must die — and I struggled desperately in spirit with the grim Azrael.
I groaned in anguish at the pitiable spectacle. Would have soothed — I would have reasoned; but, in the intensity of her wild desire for life — for life — but for life — solace and reason were the uttermost folly.
Freddie Moore is a Brooklyn-based writer. Follow her on Twitter: moorefreddie. Whether due to the circumstances of time or conspiracy of sibling rivalry, the childhood writings of Emily and Anne Bronte have disappeared.
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In Poe married his year-old cousin Virginia Clemm. She bust a blood vessel in , and remained a virtual invalid until her death from tuberculosis five years later.
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