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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.
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)
To say that sincerely is strange praise” – Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, 1882. Austin’s marriage to Susan Huntington Gilbert in 1856 solidified the place in the family of one of Dickinson’s dearest friends. Susan’s friendship helped expand the poet’s horizons, and their sharing of books and ideas was a vital component ...
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.
Mrs. Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, widow of William Austin Dickinson, died at her home, the Evergreens, in Amherst yesterday, in her 83rd year, from heart disease. She had been seriously ill for a number of weeks, and for several days her life has been slowly, peacefully fading away.
Open Me Carefully presents selections from Emily Dickinson’s correspondence to her sister-in-law and beloved friend, Susan Huntington Dickinson. The text offers nearly 250 of the poet’s letters, poems and hybrid texts — what Susan termed “letter poems” — and a small handful of extant notes from Susan to Emily.
For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation.
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