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John William Tuohy lives in Washington DC

Dig her back up, I changed my mind.


 The artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti had a wife named Elizabeth, She died of an overdose of laudanum in 1862, possibly a suicide, shortly after giving birth to a stillborn (Another) child.

Rossetti had the bulk of his unpublished poems buried with her at Highgate Cemetery.

Then he became wildly popular and started making a lot of money from his poetry so he had poor Elizabeth dug up, fetched the poems, and reburied her.  

 

He idealized her image as Dante’s Beatrice in a number of paintings