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Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson (December 19, 1830 – May 12, 1913) was an American writer, poet, traveler, and editor. She was a lifelong friend and sister-in-law of poet Emily Dickinson.
Susan, a writer herself, was the most familiar of all the family members with Dickinson’s poetry, having received more than 250 poems from her over the years. At least once she offered constructive criticism and advice. Susan wrote the poet’s remarkable obituary, which appeared in the Springfield Republican on May 18, 1886.
Dec 10, 2018 · Emily Dickinson’s Electric Love Letters to Susan Gilbert. By Maria Popova. Four months before her twentieth birthday, Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830–May 15, 1886) met the person who became her first love and remained her greatest — an orphaned mathematician-in-training by the name of Susan Gilbert, nine days her junior.
SUSAN HUNTINGTON GILBERT DICKINSON, 1830-1913 A brief account of her life... by Martha Nell Smith. There is no history. There is only biography. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1839)
With Susan as the inspiration for many of Emily’s poems and the sole recipient of even more, it is clear that the two women shared an intimate, loving, and life-long relationship. For more information on Susan visit Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson. Below you’ll find a selection of poems Emily sent to Susan.
Dec 18, 2021 · So you can imagine how the closest person to her, Susan Huntington Gilbert, felt when she read such lines as, “To own a / Susan of / my own / Is of itself / a Bliss — / Whatever / Realm I / forfeit, Lord, / Continue / me in this!” and “Sweet Hour, blessed Hour, to carry me to you, and to bring you back to me, long enough to snatch one kiss, and ...
SUSAN HUNTINGTON GILBERT DICKINSON, 1830-1913. A brief account of her life... by Martha Nell Smith. WORKS CITED. Bianchi, Martha Dickinson. Emily Dickinson Face to Face. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1932. Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth. Various Writings.
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