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unpublished poems buried with her at Highgate Cemetery.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
