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Why did Rossetti have his wife exhumed?

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Overcome with grief over the death of his wife, Dante Gabriel Rossetti placed the only copy of his poems in her coffin when she was buried. Seven years later, however, he claimed her spirit had come to him and told him to reclaim the poems--so he had her dug up.c

 


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