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With this exhibit, we are taking the opportunity to present a wider view of Mabel Loomis Todd’s role in Amherst life, one that showcases her as an independent woman and extremely driven individual. We intend to tell her story on her own terms. She had a complex relationship with this town. Her role in Amherst is defined today predominantly by ...
When Mabel Loomis Todd ceased her work on Dickinson’s poems, a period of quiet ensued in the publication story. Lavinia Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Susan Dickinson all died, and Martha Dickinson Bianchi began to assume a larger role in shaping her aunt’s legacy.
Mabel Loomis Todd. Mabel Loomis Todd Papers (MS 496C). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. By the fall of 1883, it was the dirty little secret that everyone in the small college town of Amherst, Massachusetts seemed to know. Beautiful, young and ambitious Mabel Loomis Todd was in love with Austin Dickinson, scion of a venerable ...
Nov 8, 2018 · Mabel Loomis Todd’s transcription of “Daily Bliss.” The poem first appeared in print in 1896. Courtesy of the Amherst College Collection. Mabel arranged for a meeting with Colonel Higginson, determined to show him a large pile of copied poems. She brought with her the “immense file” that “weighed many pounds.”
Dec 8, 2016 · Despite oddities of punctuation, diction, rhyme, and rhythm, her cumulative achievement surprised Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, her first editors. No one, not even her sister Lavinia, had foreseen such a large and powerful body of work.
Jul 29, 2014 · To the extent that she is remembered today, Mabel Loomis Todd (1856-1932) is mostly remembered either as the first editor of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, or as the woman who had a lengthy affair with Emily’s older brother, Austin. But Mabel led a full, rich and multifaceted life. There was so much more to her than her important roles as Emily ...
May 9, 2022 · The library has a copy of the first edition of Emily Dickinson’s poems, illustrated on the cover with Mabel’s Indian Pipe painting. The Amherst Historical Society has her swimsuit, dresses and some of her artwork. Mabel Loomis Todd contradicted the image of a prim 19 th century woman with few options outside the home. She died in 1932, in ...
