Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson

Susan Gilbert , ED 's sister-in-law, was one of the female friends she earnestly valued. The letters that Emily wrote to her future sister-in-law, as well as her correspondence with Austin , during the 1850s...

Austin's wife, Susan Gilbert , became a close friend of ED . She had been married to Austin for a quarter century when he took a much younger mistress, Mabel Loomis Todd , the wife...

The collection's epigraph, open me carefully, which the publishers say was written on an envelope containing a letter from Emily Dickinson to Susan Huntington Gilbert , June 1852, emphasizes the influence of Dickinson on...