In Edgar Allan Poe’s “Ligeia,” the narrator’s first wife is named Ligeia. She is portrayed as exceptionally beautiful, intellectually gifted, and deeply knowledgeable about classical languages, science, metaphysics, and forbidden forms of wisdom.
Ligeia becomes seriously ill and dies, leaving the unnamed narrator devastated. He moves to England and takes refuge in a decaying abbey, where he later marries Lady Rowena Trevanion of Tremaine. Rowena is deliberately contrasted with Ligeia: she is fair-haired and blue-eyed, while Ligeia is associated with dark hair, dark eyes, intense willpower, and mysterious learning.
After Rowena dies, the narrator keeps vigil beside her body. In the story’s climactic supernatural—or possibly hallucinatory—scene, the body appears to revive and gradually takes on Ligeia’s features. Poe leaves the event uncertain, since the narrator uses opium and is demonstrably unreliable.
Lenore and Annabel Lee are names from Poe’s poems, not wives in this story. Rowena is the narrator’s second wife, which is the key distinction the question tests.