In which Poe story does a character named Rowena appear?

In which Poe story does a character named Rowena appear? Rowena appears in “Ligeia.”

Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic tale “Ligeia” was first published in 1838. Its unnamed narrator first describes Ligeia, his brilliant and intensely compelling wife, who dies after composing the poem “The Conqueror Worm.” Later, he marries Lady Rowena Trevanion, a fair-haired woman associated with a very different aesthetic and emotional world.

Rowena becomes ill and dies in the couple’s isolated English abbey. During the narrator’s opium-influenced vigil beside her body, he believes he sees signs of revival. At dawn, the shrouded figure rises, and the narrator sees dark hair and eyes resembling Ligeia’s. The story leaves open whether Rowena has truly transformed into Ligeia or whether the narrator’s perception is unreliable.

That uncertainty is central to the tale and has produced decades of critical debate. Poe himself made conflicting comments about whether Ligeia returned in Rowena’s body. The other options are also Poe stories involving death, portraiture, or haunted family histories, but Rowena is specifically a character in “Ligeia.”