Edgar Allan Poe is best known as a literary figure, a writer of short stories and poetry, but a surprising amount of his thought was devoted to natural science, with which he seems to have had a love-hate relationship. Virginia's role in Poe's life was a complex one. Beyond the significance of remaining his only wife, despite his several engagements, she was a literary muse.
Poe's interest in Virginia was surely, at first, no more than cousinly. When she grew older, to ripen into a woman as she approached fourteen, his attitude changed. She had no tendency towards intellectualism and little toward the literary, not caring much for poetry at all. She was mostly concerned with girlish fancies and playing with girl friends. She obviously adored her older, more mature and sophisticated cousin, Eddy. Eddy now began to feel physically attracted to her. Although he called her Sissy, he began to think of her as his wifey.
The most painful and the most difficult aspect of Poe's marriage, of course, was Virginia's invalidism. Only six short years after the marriage, she was to become invalided by consumption. Her condition fluctuated for a few years until she became bedridden and steadily grew worse, to terminate, finally, with her death.
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