“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

Emily Dickinson died in 1886, and her poems were not introduced to the reading public until 1890, when editors Thomas Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd released the first edition of Poems by Emily Dickinson. In the hundred years since that first publication, the story of Emily Dickinson and Susan Huntington Dickinson has only gradually emerged in the annals of Dickinson scholarship. In fact, most readers of Dickinson are unaware of the intense and…