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Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe

1822 - 1847

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe has received more than 2,407,819 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe is the 3,293rd most popular writer (down from 2,353rd in 2019), the 4,321st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,981st in 2019) and the 377th most popular American Writer.

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  • 18

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  • 3.20

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe ranks 3,293 out of 5,755Before her are John Mauropous, Teofilo Folengo, Salvador Espriu, Peter Cheyney, William Langland, and Marcin Kromer. After her are Luciano De Crescenzo, Nancy Mitford, William Cowper, Gunnar Staalesen, Milán Füst, and Adam of Saint Victor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe ranks 48Before her are Jules Antoine Lissajous, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Korla Awgust Kocor, Albrecht Ritschl, and Carlo Alfredo Piatti. After her are Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Willem Roelofs, Alexander Mackenzie, John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, Mathew Brady, and Jakob Dubs. Among people deceased in 1847, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe ranks 30Before her are Tyagaraja, Daniel O'Connell, Josef Jungmann, Alexey Venetsianov, José de Palafox y Melci, 1st Duke of Zaragoza, and Friedrich von Gärtner. After her are Erik Gustaf Geijer, José Joaquín de Olmedo, Henri Dutrochet, Frans Michael Franzén, Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, and William Smith.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe ranks 4,321 out of 18,182Before her are Daron Malakian (1975), John Henry Holland (1929), Marlon Jackson (1957), Nancy Marchand (1928), Florence Harding (1860), and John Cocke (1925). After her are Chuck Daly (1930), William Steig (1907), David Butler (1894), Jim Beaver (1950), David Koresh (1959), and Lysander Spooner (1808).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe ranks 377Before her are Wallace Stevens (1879), Bruce Sterling (1954), Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892), Willa Cather (1873), Lilian Jackson Braun (1913), and Diane Disney Miller (1933). After her are William Steig (1907), James Salter (1925), A. Merritt (1884), John Ashbery (1927), Richard Yates (1926), and Charles Fort (1874).