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Memoirs of Little Boys that live-
"Weren't you chasing Pussy," said Vinnie to Gilbert?
"No-she was chasing herself"-
"But wasn't she running pretty fast"? "Well, some slow and some fast" said the beguiling Villain-Pussy's Nemesis quailed-
Talk of "hoary Reprobates"!
Your Urchin is more antique in wiles than the Egyptian Sphinx-

- Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, about 1880 (L664)

Thomas Gilbert Dickinson, Emily Dickinson's second nephew, was born on August 1, 1875. Susan and Austin Dickinson had been married for almost twenty years when their third child was born; their eldest Ned was already fourteen and daughter Mattie, eight, by then. The whole family doted on "little Gib." Many of Ned's letters, for example, describe the antics of his little brother with clear pride and affection: "Gib is all right and as naughty as ever," he declares in a letter to their mother (Jan 11, 1879). "Gilbert has a most tremendous reputation for brilliant remarks out here," he boasts in another (Oct 10, 1881). Emily Dickinson's letters suggest that she, too, took great pleasure in her youngest nephew's beguiling wiles.

A number of Gib's own letters remain, confirming this charming precociousness. A letter he wrote to "Santy Clause" and posted with a hand-drawn stamp concludes: "Please bring me whatever you think best. I don't mean a spanking I mean some common place toys." In fact the Evergreens contains a far-from-commonplace collection of his toys, including an elaborate rocking horse and a velocipede (tricycle), which Gib rode avidly in town. The furnishings of the Dickinson nursery display the Victorian era celebration of childhood as a special and cherished life stage, the Dickinsons going so far as to allow their children to paste pictures from books and magazines on the doors of the nursery and adjacent hall. When Gib decided to host a circus in The Evergreens' yard, the family printed up abundant tickets.

In the fall of 1883 Gib contracted typhoid fever, and died on October 5. He was just eight years old. In a rare excursion from the Homestead, Emily Dickinson came to sit by his bedside the night before he died, and her letter of condolence to Sue is seared with her grief. "His life was full of Boon" she wrote. "I see him in the Star, and meet his sweet velocity in everything that flies-His life was like the Bugle, which winds itself away, his Elegy an echo-his Requiem ecstasy-" (L868). Her own health deteriorated swiftly thereafter, and some scholars have associated her decline with the wrenching loss of this beloved boy. The family as a whole was deeply shaken by his death. No other children ever lived in The Evergreens and the nursery was largely preserved intact as a kind of family memorial.

Gilbert Dickinson's manuscripts (unpublished) are part of the Martha Dickinson Bianchi Collection at the John Hay Library, Brown University.

Further Reading:

Kirk, Connie Ann. "'Open the Door, They Are Waiting for Me': An Introduction to The Evergreens Nursery."Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin (16:1), May/June 2004. 4-6.

Kirk, Connie Ann. "'To Stay Behind-With Just the Toys': Gilbert Dickinson's Living Treasures in The Evergreens."Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin (15:2), November/December 2003. 12-13, 34-35.

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Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, about 1880 (L664) Thomas Gilbert Dickinson, Emily Dickinson's second nephew, was born on August 1, 1875. Susan and Austin Dickinson had been married for almost twenty years when their third child was born; their eldest Ned was already fourteen and daughter Mattie, eight, by then.

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Emily Dickinson is one of the most mysterious writers in literary history. Although she was a literary genius, only eight of her poems were published in her life, and she lived a secluded existence. But, this quiet life at home can be compared to the isolated life her mother lived.

About Emily's Mother: Emily Norcross

Emily Norcross was born on July 3, 1804, and she married Edward Dickinson on May 6, 1828. The couple's first child, William Austin Dickinson, was born just 11 months later. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, and her sister, Lavinia Norcross Dickinson (Vinnie) was born several years later on February 28, 1833.

From what we know of Emily Norcross, she seldom left home, only making brief visits to relatives. Later, Dickinson would rarely leave home, spending most of her days in the same house. She isolated herself more and more as she grew older, and she seemed to become more selective in whom she saw from her circle of family and friends.

Of course, one marked difference between Dickinson and her mother is that she never married. There has been a great deal of speculation about why Emily Dickinson never married. In one of her poems, she writes, "I'm wife; I've finished that... " and "She rose to his requirement... / To take the honorable work / Of woman and of wife." Perhaps she had a long-lost lover. Perhaps, she chose to live a different sort of life, without leaving home and without marrying.

Whether it was a choice, or simply a matter of circumstance, her dreams came to fruition in her work. She could imagine herself in and out of love and marriage. And, she was always free to spend her flood of words, with passionate intensity. For whatever reason, Dickinson did not marry. But even her relationship with her mother was troubled.

The Strain of Having an Unsupportive Mother

Dickinson once wrote to her mentor, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "My Mother does not care for thought--," which was foreign to the way Dickinson lived. Later she wrote to Higginson: "Could you tell me what home is. I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled."

Dickinson's relationship with her mother may have been strained, especially during her earliest years. She could not look to her mother for support in her literary efforts, but none of the members of her family or friends saw her as a literary genius. Her father saw Austin as the genius and never looked beyond. Higginson, while supportive, described her as "partially cracked."

She had friends, but none of them really understood the true extent of her genius. They found her witty, and they enjoyed corresponding with her through letters. In many ways, though, she was completely alone. On June 15, 1875, Emily Norcross Dickinson suffered a paralytic stroke and suffered from a long period of illness thereafter. This period of time may have had more influence on her seclusion from society than any other, but it was also a way for the mother and daughter to become closer than ever before.

For Dickinson, it was also just another small step away into her upper room--into her writing. Vinnie said that one of the "daughters must be constantly at home." She explains her sister's seclusion by saying that "Emily chose this part." Then, Vinnie said that Emily, "finding the life with her books and nature so congenial, continued to live it..."

A Caretaker Till the End

Dickinson cared for her mother for the final seven years of her life, until her mother died on November 14, 1882. In a letter to Mrs. J.C. Holland, she wrote: "The dear Mother that could not walk, has flown. It never occurred to us that she had not Limbs, she had Wings--and she soared from us unexpectedly as a summoned Bird--"

Dickinson could not understand what it meant: the death of her mother. She had experienced so much death in her life, not only with the deaths of friends and acquaintances, but the death of her father, and now her mother. She had wrestled with the idea of death; she had feared it, and she wrote many poems about it. In "'Tis so appalling," she wrote, "Looking at death is dying." So, her mother's final end was hard for her, especially after such a long illness.

Dickinson wrote to Maria Whitney: "All is faint indeed without our vanished mother, who achieved in sweetness what she lost in strength, though grief of wonder at her fate made the winter short, and each night I reach finds my lungs more breathless, seeking what it means." Emily's mother might not have been the genius that her daughter was, but she influenced Dickinson's life in ways she probably didn't even realize. In total, Dickinson wrote 1,775 poems in her life. Would Emily have written so many, or would she have written any at all, if she had not lived that solitary existence at home? She lived for so many years alone--in the room of her own.

Emily Dickinson Biography

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One of the most influential poets who enriched English literature was Emily Dickinson. Her genius and uniqueness spoke for herself. Known for her unconventional pattern of writing poetry with a combination of dashes and pauses. While her death revealed a lot of her hidden poems, the reason for her death lies in the uncertain zone. How did Emily Dickinson die?

A consensus for the reason for her death is kidney failure, but there is a small slice of people who believe it was something else. This article will explore the cause of the death of Emily Dickinson, about her life and childhood. I'll also discuss some of Emily Dickinson's facts and her family.

How did Emily Dickinson die?

Emily Dickinson was never a social person. She did not even want her works to be published. Just like herself, she wanted her works to stay under the cover of darkness, revealing them only to a select few.

As her age progressed, she started suffering from health issues. She had trouble with her eyesight which was a major hindrance in her poetry writing. She is also said to have suffered from high blood pressure which is not too far-fetched as later in her life she saw an increased amount of household responsibilities.

Emily Dickinson died from Bright's disease. Bright's disease is the inflammation of the kidneys in which there is a condition called acute or chronic nephritis. This occurs due to the presence of albumin in the urine. Albumin is a protein found in eggs, etc. Bright's disease was discovered by English physician Robert Bright in 1827.

Emily Dickinson was 55 years of age when she died on May 15, 1886 in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Did Emily Dickinson die of Epilepsy?

This notion is more of speculation and less of a fact, but it was necessary to mention it when we are writing an article on how did Emily Dickinson die. The idea comes from Dickinson's biography called Lives Like Loaded Guns. The title of this book consists of alliteration, just like many of her poems did.

Lyndall Gordon, a senior research fellow at St. Hilda's College, Oxford, who is also the author of Dickinson's biography, suggests that Emily Dickinson may have suffered from epilepsy. Was it the cause of her death is not certain but it did play an important role in her life.

Gordon says that many of Emily Dickinson's poems talk about a handicap and it may point towards a possibility of her having the disease. There is no evidence to support this idea, but if we believe that Dickinson had epilepsy, a few of her peculiarities can be explained.

Her recluse and secluded life

Dickinson always kept herself away from the world. She preferred the company of only a few and in her later life, she stayed at her father's house in Amherst, the place she was born. But why? This could be explained if we are to believe that she had epilepsy.

Dickinson always suggested that she had some handicaps. This would also explain her seclusion and living in her father's house. She did not want to reveal herself to the world. This could also be the reason why Emily Dickinson never publish her poems. Letting her poems into the world would turn more eyes towards her and she did not want that. But after all the possibilities and assumptions, it is all just a theory and nothing else. But why did Dickinson did not want her poems to be published?

Why did Emily Dickinson did not want to publish her poems?

Here is an interesting fact about Emily Dickinson, she had only a handful of poems out for the world when she was alive. She rose to popularity only after her death, just like Bruce Lee. Here is another fact about Emily Dickinson. On her deathbed, she asked her sister to destroy all the poems she had written in her lifetime. Do you know how many poems were not revealed and she wanted it destroyed? 1,800 brilliant and moving poems!

This clearly shows one attribute of Dickinson's character, she did not want the world to see her poems. We know that she did not like to mix with the world too. This could be a possible reason. Not that she feared or disliked fame, of that we have no clue. What she feared was criticism.

Why Emily Dickinson feared criticism.

Emily Dickinson's poems were unusual for her time. When poets paid a lot of attention to the structure and meter of the poem, Dickinson only wanted to express herself. She knew that her poetry would be viewed as an outcast. She feared people would criticize her poems, poems that mean a lot to her. Since he was an introvert and as an introvert myself, poetry is the only form of expressing ourselves. This fear is why she did not like to publish her poems. And she was right.

After her death, Dickinson's sister-in-law Susan tried to publish her poems. She sent a poem to New York editor of the day and he rejected the poem, probably because it was too different from the conventional pattern.

Even when her poems were published, her poems were heavily edited. This defeats the purpose of the poems. This was exactly what Dickinson feared. But it was after 1955 when Thomas H. Johnson published the unedited version of her poems. Dickinson was wrong. Her poems were loved by everyone and her style was applauded.

This was the story of how Emily Dickinson died. But before we go, we have added a few extra things for you to read.

Emily Dickinson famous poems

Emily Dickinson wrote a total of more than 1,800 poems. While every poem of her has a mysterious rhythm to it, some poems are loved more than the others, as it is with every poet. So we had made a small list of some of her most famous poems for you to read.
Because I could not stop for Death "Faith" is a fine invention Tell all truth but tell it slant A Bird, came down the Walk Before I got my eye put out Fame is a bee Come slowly - Eden Fame is a fickle food
Emily Dickinson books to read
The complete poems of Emily Selected poems of Emily Dickinson Final harvest by Emily Dickinson A brighter garden by ED Envelope poems Witches' Brew Emily Dickinson Selected letters Letters of Emily Dickinson My letter to the world and other The world in a frame Lives loaded like a gun
Hello sunshine, goodnight moonlight

Emily Dickinson death was a major loss to the literature world. We lost a visionary poet who truly stood out of her time. There are only a few poets whose poems are being read even centuries after their death and Dickinson is one such poet. She has been one of my favorite poets and her poems will always inspire me to write and learn. Thank you Ms. Dickinson for the treasure you have provided us with.

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Before Emily Dickinson died in 1886, her sister Lavinia promised that she would burn Emily's papers. But when she discovered a cache of almost 1,800 poems that her sister had written, Lavinia instead sought to find someone who could help bring this unique poetry to the world. That person turned out to be Mabel Loomis Todd.

Todd, the beautiful, young and energetic wife of an Amherst College professor, had literary ambitions of her own. She also was peculiarly entwined with members of the Dickinson family, including an intense and passionate extra-marital relationship with Emily and Lavinia's older brother, Austin. Lavinia (also known as Vinnie) sensed that Mabel would be willing to take on the task of preparing Emily's poetry for publication. She was right.

But what Lavinia did not realize was the extent of work needed to get the poems into a form in which they could be considered worthy of publication in the late 19th century. These excerpts from my forthcoming book, After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet, delineate the complicated process Mabel undertook. Her arduous work led to the publication of three volumes of Dickinson's poetry, but also had some unintended consequences-including a scandalous lawsuit that rocked the community, the sequestration of more than 600 original Dickinson poems for three decades, and ultimately, the division of Dickinson's manuscripts between Harvard University and Amherst College. It also led to upending the career path of Mabel's accomplished daughter, Millicent Todd Bingham, who took on her mother's work, and to exacerbating the deep tensions between Mabel and Millicent.

And in the 128 years since the publication of the first volume of Dickinson's poetry, it's brought considerable debate over the editorial choices that they made.

Today these debates continue. Looking at Dickinson's original manuscripts and Todd's original transcriptions of them, we can clearly see ways in which Todd and Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson (the well-known abolitionist, Civil War hero and 19th-century literary advocate whom she convinced to join her in the editing project for the first two volumes of poetry published in 1890 and 1891) altered words, changed capitalization and punctuation and perhaps most controversially, gave titles to poems that originally bore none. And yet it is clear that without the work of Mabel Loomis Todd and later, Millicent Todd Bingham, the world might never have known the poetry of Emily Dickinson.

Mabel recalled that when she first took the box of poems, "The outlook was appalling. Emily wrote in the strangest hand ever seen, which I had to absolutely incorporate into my innermost consciousness before I could be certain of anything she reflected." Mabel also noted the difficulties she had because Emily often wrote "six or eight" different words she was considering using in a particular point in a poem, with additional choices that "would run around the margins." In her 1930 Harper's Magazine article, Mabel wrote, "In the so-called 'copied poems,' tiny crosses written beside a word which might be changed ultimately and which referred to scores of possible words at the bottom of the page were all exactly alike, so that only the most sympathetic and at-one-with-the-author could determine where each word belonged."

Mabel might not have been Vinnie's first choice of an editor, but it turned out that she was an inspired one. Mabel worked diligently and methodically on the poems, sometimes for hours each day to decipher, interpret and transcribe them. She called David and even seven-year-old Millicent into service to help. (Looking back, Millicent reflected, "Initiation into the vagaries of Emily's handwriting is one of the earliest rites I can recall.") After laboriously copying different versions of each poem by hand, Mabel would type them up on her new borrowed Hammond typewriter. When she was more comfortable with the machine, Mabel sometimes typed poems without first copying them by hand.

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."

"He did not think a volume advisable," Mabel wrote in 1890. "They were crude in form, he said, and the public would not accept even fine ideas in such rough and mystical dress-so hard to elucidate." But certain of the poems' worth and determined to convince Higginson to sign onto the project, Mabel "read him nearly a dozen of my favorites-and he was greatly astonished-said he had no idea there were so many in passably conventional form." Emily's "strange cadences" came alive when Mabel read them aloud.

Higginson asked Mabel if she would classify the poems into three groups (A, B and C), organized by her own judgment of which were the best ones ("not only those of most original thought, but expressed in the best form"), a second group of poems "with striking ideas, but with too many of her peculiarities of construction to be used unaltered for the public" and a third group that she "considered too obscure or too irregular in form for public use, however brilliant and suggestive." If she did that, Higginson said that he would look more carefully at the categorized poems during the winter months. Mabel was thrilled, though from the distance of many years later, noted she believed Higginson had not initially exuded confidence: "he indicated to me my herculean task, and I began alone."

After Higginson agreed to assist with the project, Mabel stepped up her efforts to get the rest of the poems classified. She worked quickly and sent Higginson her selections on November 18th. He responded a week later, saying, "I can't tell you how much I am enjoying the poems. There are many new to me which take my breath away & which also have form beyond most of those I have ever seen before. . . . My confidence in their availability is greatly increased & it is fortunate there are so many because it is obviously impossible to print all & this leaves the way open for careful selection." He suggested that among the poems Mabel selected in her first category, some were more worthy of publication than others. Further, he posited arranging the subset of poems thematically: those about life, those about nature, and those about time, death and eternity.

"Emily placed a great responsibility upon her editors by leaving to them so often the choice of a key word. For it authorized them to color her thought with their taste. Obliged so often to make a choice, they might be tempted to go further, to change a word to fit their own preference-a dangerous leeway, for the thought is timeless while taste may change," Bingham wrote in Ancestors' Brocades. Millicent also made clear that even when her mother altered Emily's word choice, these were decisions not made easily. According to Millicent, her mother seemed aware that in compromising with Higginson's view of what might be acceptable, she might also have undermined Emily's poetic intent.

In addition to altering words, Mabel and Higginson made other textual changes. Among other things, they sometimes altered words to make lines rhyme and conform to a more typical a-b-c-b rhyming pattern.

They also changed what Millicent deemed "grammatical vagaries" or "Emily's grammatical irresponsibility"-including swapping out "he" for "him" and "she" for "her" in some poems. Several more recent scholars suggested that Emily's grammar might have reflected spoken usage of the day rather than written usage, though this is not certain. Others posit that Emily's pronoun use might have been deliberate and its suggestiveness in tying "she" with sensual imagery rather than "her" was something Mabel and Higginson purposively sought to change to make the poems more acceptable to potential readers.

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Few of Mabel's and Higginson's decisions have drawn more ire than the decision to title poems that originally bore no name. Emily herself gave titles to only a few of what proved to be nearly eighteen hundred poems. Scholar John Mulvihill suggests that Emily left the vast majority of her poetry untitled both because she did not publish it, and thus had no need to yield to this convention, and also because titling poems tends to draw a reader's attention to a particular image or interpretation. "Left untitled, one can argue, a poem can more simply be, or seem to be."

Mabel had reservations about titling the poems. In 1890 she wrote that while Higginson wanted to put titles on the poems, "I do not believe, myself, in naming them; and although I admire Mr. Higginson very much, I do not think many of his titles good." Mabel thought that Higginson was often off base with his titles, and that a title such as "A World Well Lost" for the poem that began "I lost a world the other day, / Has anybody found?" completely misrepresented Emily's thought.

Contemporary practice for the identification of Emily's poetry is to utilize the numerical system devised by Johnson in the 1950s, along with the poem's first line rather than use a particular title, or to use the numerical system Franklin established in the late 1990s in his chronologically arranged three-volume edition of the complete poems utilizing newer methods of dating the poems. This is a decision Mabel probably would have embraced. But Mabel yielded to Higginson on the titling of the poetry, as she did on other editorial decisions. As Millicent explained, "My mother was ready to accept as final Colonel Higginson's judgment regarding the poems. Though a lesser figure he had been coeval with the greatest and that sufficed." For Mabel, his judgment trumped her own, even though she often retained and recorded her own opinions. As literary scholar Elizabeth Horan points out, while Mabel "maintained all her prerogatives as a 'lady,' she got her way because she willingly deferred to men. . . . She was careful not to appear pushy and to take others' interests into account when she proposed new lines of action."

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Poems, by Emily Dickinson, was published on November 12th, 1890. Roberts Brothers did an initial press run of 480 copies. Mabel was sent six copies, and she later told Millicent, "The sense of actually holding it in our hands was one of exultation." But, as Millicent noted, with the publication of this volume, "A great calm seems to have enveloped them all-an oppressive quiet, like the eye of the storm."
Adapted from After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet . Used with the permission of W.W. Norton & Company . Copyright © 2018 by Julie Dobrow.

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Before Emily Dickinson died in 1886, her sister Lavinia promised that she would burn Emily's papers. But when she discovered a cache of almost 1,800 poems that her sister had written, Lavinia instead sought to find someone who could help bring this unique poetry to the world.

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"'My life had stood a loaded gun' may be a woman's war cry, a chant about DIckinsons own aggression, her own sexuality, but it's also a poem about the end of the world..." (202)

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' Dickinson,' using wacky humor, feminist ideals, and queer concepts, reimagines the personality, life, and experiences of the reputed poet Emily Dickinson. By using a contemporary lens to look at historical facts, the show, created by Alena Smith, explores Emily's interactions with her poetry, family, and friends. In particular, an emphasis is placed on Emily's friendship with Susan "Sue" Gilbert, who is shown to be her lover as well.

Fans have praised the way the show has handled queer relationships; many swoon over Emily and Sue's romance, which unfolds with secrecy, speed, and passion in their small town of Amherst. It is thus but natural to wonder whether Susan Gilbert was a real person and actually Emily's lover. Others are curious not only about Susan's life but also about her death. So, let's dive right in and find out the answers to these questions!

Is Susan Gilbert Based on a Real Person?

Yes, Susan Gilbert is based on a real person. Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson was born on December 19, 1830, in Old Deerfield, Massachusetts. She studied at the Amherst Academy in the summer of 1847; in 1848, she attended the Utica Female Academy in New York. Susan's eldest sister resided in Amherst and, after finishing her studies, Susan herself moved to the small town.

In season 1, we see Austin, Emily's brother, asking Sue to marry him, much to the poet's horror. The annals of history reveal that Susan and Austin's romance started in 1850; it is believed that Susan and Emily became close friends in the same year. At the beginning of the series, we see that after getting engaged and having an emotional fight with Emily, an overwhelmed Sue decides to leave Amherst temporarily. This aligns with the real Susan's sudden departure to Baltimore sometime between 1851 and 1852, which left the Dickinsons quite shocked.

Emily and Susan maintained their epistolary relationship throughout this time period (in fact, they wrote letters to each other until Emily passed away in 1886). On the other hand, Susan and Austin got engaged in 1853 when they met briefly in Boston. Three years later, on July 1, 1856, the two got married and settled into their domestic life in Amherst.

Whilst the show's Emily calls Susan "Sue," the real Emily mostly addressed her friend and sister-in-law as "Susie." The two women were close and often relied on each other for emotional support. Although the show does present Sue as an intelligent woman capable of grasping the genius of Emily's poetry, it tends to ascribe her to the domestic domain in order to highlight Emily's detachment from women's traditional roles.

However, the truth is that Susan was a talented writer, voracious reader, and a phenomenal socializer who could easily hold conversations pertaining to a range of domains. We see this particularly in season 2 of the show, when Sue throws fantastic salons, inviting the most reputed artists from the area. Emily clearly loved and respected Susan's artistic temperament and considered her to be her best critic. In fact, Emily sent more than 250 poems to Susan; she even shared her drafts with her friend, and scholars believe that the poet did not do so with others. In one of her letters, the poet stated: "With the exception of Shakespeare, you [Susan] have told me of more knowledge than anyone living. To say that sincerely is strange praise."

In both the second and third seasons, we see that Susan is terrified of becoming a mother - at first, she goes through a miscarriage and later she worries about dying in childbirth. In reality, as well, Susan developed this fear after her sister, Mary, died whilst giving birth. However, Susan and Austin did have three children - Edward, Martha, and Thomas Gilbert. We see the birth of Edward, known affectionately as Ned, halfway through the final season of the show.

Susan's home with Austin, the Evergreens, was next door to Emily's, the Dickinson Homestead. Thus, the two women spent a lot of their adult life in each other's company. In the series, we see that Susan and Austin eventually become distant after the former has an affair with Samuel Bowles and the latter starts seeing Jane Humphrey. In reality, Susan faced marital troubles when Austin began an affair with Mabel Loomis Todd in 1882.

Although the world outside academia seems to have largely forgotten Susan's literary abilities, it is a fact that she was a published writer. Her stories were featured in the Springfield Republican, and Susan was known to be a keen observer and recorder of historical and contemporary events pertaining to strong and talented women. 'Dickinson' pays homage to this brilliant mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend, and artist by showing us the at once playful, creative, and deeply emotional facets of Susan's personality.

Was Susan "Sue" Gilbert Really Emily's Lover? How Did She Die?

At the core of 'Dickinson' is Emily's love for Sue - thus, it's natural for fans to wonder whether the most important aspect of the show is based on truth or fiction. Many scholars claim that Emily and Susan were lovers and that Emily's letters and poems document her obsessive love for her friend and sister-in-law. Others note that it wasn't unusual for women in the 19th Century to be excessively affectionate towards each other as societal norms did not frown upon such behavior.

However, it is also the truth that history tends to be read from a heterosexual perspective; thus, scholars continue to reexamine Emily and Susan's life through a queer lens in order to ascertain the nature of their relationship. "Thank you for loving me, darling, and will you "love me more if ever you come home" ! it is enough, dear Susie, I know I shall be satisfied. But what can I do towards you? - dearer you cannot be, for I love you so already, that it almost breaks my heart - perhaps I can love you anew, every day of my life, every morning and evening - Oh if you will let me, how happy I shall be!" reads an excerpt from one of Emily's letters to Susan.

It's not hard to see why literary theorists, historians, and scholars believe that Emily and Susan may have been in love. However, it is unlikely that they ever physically consummated their relationship because neither Emily nor Susan was the type to openly break societal codes. What is verified, though, is that Emily wholly trusted Susan's judgment when it came to her poetry and shared more of her poetic mind with her than with anyone else.

"It's hard to dispute that there was a passionate relationship there just given the way that Emily writes to Sue, but how we frame that and how we interpret it is of course going to be based on our own understandings of what can transpire between two women," opined Smith, talking about Emily and Sue's queer relationship in the show. In the final edition of the comedy-drama, we even get to see the two women make love.

Susan attended Emily's funeral and even wrote her obituary, which featured in the Springfield Republican on May 18, 1886. She kept many of Emily's letters with her, which allows historians of today to peep at their passionate relationship. After the poet's death, Lavinia (known as Vinnie), her sister, entrusted Susan with the task of editing Emily's poetry. However, Susan's lack of speed when it came to the editorial process made Lavinia hand over Emily's fascicles to Mabel, Austin's mistress.

Even in the last decades of her life, Susan showed the artistic enthusiasm and desire to have new experiences that dominated her youth. In the early 1900s, Susan visited Paris, Cologne, Nice, Zurich, Venice, Verona, Florence, the Hague, Rome, and London. She died at the age of 82 on May 12, 1913, due to heart disease. Although it is indisputable that Susan was a greatly influential force in Emily's life, it's important to remember her not just as Emily's friend and potential lover but also as an artist in her own right.
Read More: Do Emily and Sue End Up Together in Dickinson?

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Is Susan Gilbert Based on a Real Person? Was She Really Emily's Lover? How Did She Die?

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'Dickinson,' using wacky humor, feminist ideals, and queer concepts, reimagines the personality, life, and experiences of the reputed poet Emily Dickinson. By using a contemporary lens to look at historical facts, the show, created by Alena Smith, explores Emily's interactions with her poetry, family, and friends.

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Say hello to Emily Dickinson, who is here to party like it's the mid-1800s. At least that's the vibe the new Apple TV+ series, Dickinson, is going for because they're giving us an untold story about Emily's early years in life. Like, how she frequently rebelled, had a secret girlfriend, fought the patriarchy, and went on carriage ride-dates with Death himself.

The series, which stars Hailee Steinfeld as the titular Dickinson, is certainly based on fact, but a whole lot of fiction has come into play, too. For one, much of Dickinson's life was filled with more death and tragedy that it was Lizzo and Billie Eilish songs. But looking back at the timeline of her life, things are a bit spotty. Dickinson only achieved fame after her death, when over a thousand of her poems finally saw the light of day. Considering that she wasn't a figure of note during her lifetime - and the fact that she removed herself from society for the later half of her life - there's not a ton of concrete evidence to go off of when it comes to what she was like and how she lived, but there letters. Loads and loads of letters.

While Dickinson solely focuses on Emily's time as a young woman, the full timeline of her life from birth to death means the series could run for seasons and seasons - it just might have to take a much darker turn. Here it is, the life and (somewhat dark) times of one Emily Dickinson:

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson is born in Amherst, Massachusetts to Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson (yes, she and her mother have the same name). Emily already has an older brother, Austin, who is already a year old.

Three years later, on February 28, 1833, Emily's younger sister, Lavinia, is born.

Emily and Lavinia both enroll in Amherst Academy together, which had recently been converted from an all-boys school. Around this same time, Emily's family move to a brand new house on North Pleasant Street and it just so happened to overlook a nearby cemetery. This would become important later, so let's put a pin in that.

One of Emily's cousins, Sophia Holland, dies from typhus. Emily - who is 13 at the time - is deeply shaken by her death. She begins writing about death and is so distraught over it that her family sends her away to Boston to live for a time being while she recovers.

Emily's childhood was dotted with illnesses which meant that she was frequently absent. The longest one of these stretches lasted for several terms between the years 1845 and 1946 when, in total, she only attended school for 11 weeks.

Emily graduates from Amherst Academy (though it wasn't necessarily called "graduation" at the time). Before this, she becomes friendly with the school's new principal, Leonard Humphrey, who is only a few years older than she is. Emily later enrolls at the nearby all-girls Mary Lyon's Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (which is now Mount Holyoke College). Emily only stayed at the Seminary for 10 months, and on March 25, 1848 her older brother Austin arrived to bring her home.

Mr. Dickinson gifts Emily a dog, which was supposedly a Newfoundland. Emily names the dog " Carlo" after the dog in Jane Eyre. Carlo quickly becomes a staple in Emily's life, and also her poetry as he's referenced often. He also becomes one of her few long-standing companions during her walks around town.

Her friend, and former principal, Humphrey dies suddenly at the age of 25. After struggling with the death of her cousin earlier in life, this blow sends Emily into a deep depression.

Emily's first piece of poetry is published in The Springfield Daily Republican, "Sic transit gloria mundi," which translates to "Thus passes the glory of the world" in Latin. The poem, which serves as a parody of Emily's education, is quite long, but here's a taste:

For the first time in her life, at age 35, Emily travels outside of Massachusetts with her mother and sister to visit her father in Washington D.C. (where he's serving as a congressman), and later stop in Philadelphia to visit family. Upon returning home, her mother falls ill and is bedridden on and off and Emily is left to care for her.

Austin marries one of Emily's friends, Sue Gilbert, whom Dickinson and some scholars argue was Emily's secret lover. Though Austin and Sue contemplate moving out west to be closer to some of Sue's family, they instead stay in Amherst because Mr. Dickinson makes Austin a partner at his law firm. He also builds a house for the new couple right next to the Dickinson home.

Sue is also one of Emily's closest confidants, and over the course of her life, she'll send her over 300 letters. Though it's never been confirmed, lots of evidence points to Emily and Sue possibly having a romantic relationship.

Emily starts making actual copies of her poetry and writing. Looking back at all the things she's written, whether to herself or others, she begins to actually collect them into books, in total somewhere over 800 poems. But, they won't be discovered until after her death.

Throughout 1858 and beyond, her poetry begins to appear in The Springfield Republican, but they her verses were published anonymously and were heavily edited.

It's around this time that Emily is introduced to the writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson; she writes to him asking for criticism on her own poems. The two strike up a formal correspondence and Emily later tells him that he "saved her life" after they started writing. Later, in 1870, after years of corresponding, Emily and Higginson finally meet. He later explains that "Without touching her, she drew from me. I am glad not to live near her"

After 16 years of companionship, Carlo the dog dies. Emily never gets another dog.

This is also about the time that Emily stops leaving the house more and more, instead choosing to remain inside and establishing her historial reputation as a recluse. In the late 1860s, Emily travels to Boston a few times for an eye condition, which is now thought to be iritis. These trips are her last ones outside of Amherst.

Though she always tended to keep to herself, Emily really begins to withdraw from society at this time choosing to remain inside, behind closed doors - literally. When others would come to visit with her, it was said that she would communicate with them from the backside of her door, refusing to speak face-to-face. If she did go out around town she would dress all in white, and became known as the "Woman in White."

While traveling in Boston for business, Mr. Dickinson has a stroke and dies. The funeral is later held at the Dickinson house, but Emily doesn't attend. Instead, she stays upstairs in her room and listens to it from afar.

Mrs. Dickinson suffers a stroke and lives. However, she is left partly paralyzed and her memory is impaired. A few year later, on November 14, 1882, Mrs. Dickinson dies.

1882: Austin falls in love with a woman from Amherst College, Mabel Loomis Todd, and started a pretty obvious affair with her and later distanced himself from the Dickinson family.

1883: Austin and Sue's son, Gilbert, dies of typhoid fever. This affects Emily greatly as it's known that he was always her favorite nephew.

A little backstory on this one: around 1872, the Dickinson family befriends a judge, Otis Phillips Lord, and he and Emily become friends. In 1877, Judge Lord's wife dies, and it's believed that he and Emily began a romantic relationship. Many believe their correspondence to be destroyed so there's not a lot of proof to back that claim up, but the story stuck. And when Judge Otis dies in 1884, Emily is once again distraught over the death of a close friend.

After previously being confined to her bed, Emily dies in 1886. At the time, her doctor cites her cause of death as Bright's disease - a kidney disease, which plagued her for the last years of her life.

At her funeral, one of her poems is read: "Morns like these, we parted; Noons like these, she rose; Fluttering first, then firmer, To her fair repose." Higginson attended her funeral and read a poem by Emily Brontë, "No Coward Soul Is Mine."

Lavinia discovers Emily's poetry books in her room and has them published. Emily had actually mentioned these books before her passing and asked that they all be destroyed after her death. Clearly, to the delight of English professors everywhere, Lavinia had other plans.

In November 1890, the first collection of Emily's poetry, titled Poems, is published. The collection is heavily edited, mostly to fall in line with punctuation and capitalization style at the time, and it becomes the poetry we know and love today.

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Dickinson Is Much More Fun Than The Real Timeline Of The Poet's Life

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Say hello to Emily Dickinson, who is here to party like it's the mid-1800s. At least that's the vibe the new Apple TV+ series, Dickinson , is going for because they're giving us an untold story about Emily's early years in life.

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Emily’s childhood was dotted with illnesses. The longest one of these stretches lasted for several terms between the years 1845 and 1846.

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After her passing she wanted her sister to burn all of the poetry she had created and saved, she had no intention of having her work being published after her passing. Her sister Laving was going to honor this wish until she came upon the mass of 1800+ works of poetry. She sought out someone to help her publish the work, that person ended up being Mabel Loomis Todd.

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Most people believe Emily Dickinson died from Bright’s disease. Bright’s disease is the inflammation of the kidneys, which ultimate resulted in kidney failure. But some speculate she could've died from other health problems.

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Emily Dickinson's Friend Dies - March 1884 

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Emily Dickinson's Friend Dies - March 1884 

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Otis Phillips Lord and Emily were friends and in 1877 when Judge Lord’s wife dies it’s believed that he and Emily began a romantic relationship. When Judge Otis dies in 1884, Emily is once again distraught over his death, for once again one of her close friends had died.

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One of three of Austin and Sue’s children, Gilbert, dies of typhoid fever. This affects Emily greatly as it’s known that he was always her favorite nephew. This event adds to her depressed episode.

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Austin Distances Himself From The Family - 1882

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Austin Distances Himself From The Family - 1882

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While away Austin falls in love with a woman from Amherst College, Mabel Loomis Todd. He distanced himself from the Dickinson family as a result of his affair.

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Emily Dickinson's Mother Nearly Dies - June 15, 1875

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Emily Dickinson's Mother Nearly Dies - June 15, 1875

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Like her husband Emily Dickinson Sr. suffers a stroke but she lives. However, the repercussions of the stroke left her partly paralyzed and her memory impaired. A few year later, on November 14, 1882, Mrs. Dickinson dies.

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Emily Dickinson's Father Dies - June 16, 1874

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Emily Dickinson's Father Dies - June 16, 1874

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Emily's father died of a stroke in the hotel he was staying at. Edward Dickinson was a pretty well known American politician in the area so the news of his death spread pretty fast regardless of the lack of technology.

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Emily then became a "recluse" like they all said she was. She became more depressed and angry in her self ultimate resulting on her shutting out the world and going back to poem writing.

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Emily Dickinson's Dog Dies - January 1866

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Emily Dickinson's Dog Dies - January 1866

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The death of one of her closest companions was one of the factors that ended in her spiraling back to loneliness. Yet after his death, she continued to write poems and mention him.

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Emily Publishes More Poems - Summer of 1858 

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Emily Publishes More Poems - Summer of 1858 

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Throughout 1858 and beyond, her poetry begins to appear in The Springfield Republican. Her work was published anonymously and were heavily edited.

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"She could have been talking about sue here, or some unfaithful friend, but since all discussions about the evolution of Dickinson's handwriting are imprecise, she might have been talking, ten years later about some sudden lurch in her love affair with Condor Kate." (156)

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Marriage of Austin Dickinson and Susan Gilbert -  July 1, 1856

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Marriage of Austin Dickinson and Susan Gilbert -  July 1, 1856

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Austin marries one of Emily’s friends, Sue Gilbert, who many scholars argue was Emily's secret lover. Though Austin and Sue contemplate moving out west to be closer to some of Sue’s family, they instead stay in Amherst. Before marrying into the Dickinson family all of Sue's family had died.

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Emily's First Published Poem - February 20, 1852

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Emily's First Published Poem - February 20, 1852

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A letter (“Magnum bonum, harem scarum”) appeared in the Amherst College student publication The Indicator in 1850, and a poem “‘Sic transit gloria mundi,’” in the Springfield Daily Republican in 1852. They both appeared as anonymous valentines but later evidence proved it was her work.

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"She had a companion for sixteen years-a big, slobbering brown dog named Carlo, a Newfoundland as tall as she was, Dickinson loved to boast, and who must have weighed a 150 pounds" (69)

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Carlo, Emily's Newfoundland was one of her companions. Carlo was referenced in her poems on multiple occasions.

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https://www.shmoop.com/emily-dickinson/timeline.html.

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“This term is the longest in the year and I would not wish to live it over again, I can assure you. I love this Seminary and all the teachers are bound strongly to my heart by ties of affection. There are many sweet girls here and dearly do I love some new faces, but I have not yet found the place of a few dear ones filled, nor would I wish it to be here.” (59)

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This is one of the earliest times where Emily's fascination with death is mentioned. Her fascination inspired around 500+ poems solely about the subject of death.

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Emily Attends Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for a Year - 1847, September 

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Emily Attends Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for a Year - 1847, September 

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In a letter to Austin she writes a bit about her experience at the school. She attended the school with her sister and she claims that she would not want to repeat the year if she had the choice to.

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"Soon she had a litter sister; Vinnie, named after her own aut Lavina was born on February 28, 1833, at nine o'clock in the morning. But Mrs. Dickinson couldn't seem quite to recover, and she would never have another child. Vinnie herself was ill for a while. Perhaps it's why Mrs. Dickinson seemed to favor her" (56)

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Birth of Lavina Dickinson - February 28, 1833

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Birth of Lavina Dickinson - February 28, 1833

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Lavina (Vinnie) Dickinson was named after her aunt who her mother was very close with. As she grew up she and her sister grew closer and she ended up becoming one of the most significant people in her life.

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"She was drawn to women and men with powerful minds and a particular beauty. Her letters read like a catalogue of seductions, and her poems are often fired up with pain, in the codded language of a failed love affair, real or imagined. She was in love with Susan Gilbert, however we may define that love" (22)

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Birth of Austin Dickinson - April 16, 1829

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Birth of Austin Dickinson - April 16, 1829

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William Austin Dickinson was the oldest child of the Dickinsons. He followed in his father's footsteps as a lawyer in Amherst. He was wed to Susan Gilbert(later Susan Dickinson) who was her best friend and believed to be her greatest love.

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"Emily was determined about one thing: she wanted a wedding "with as little noise as possible." There would be no bridesmaid or bridesmen. They were married in Monson on May 6, 1828 in her father's house, while her mother was mortally ill." (52)

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Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson married in Monson on May 6th of 1828. Edward was an established lawyer while Emily was considered an old maid. They were wed with no bridesmaids or bridesmen per Emily's request to have a silent wedding. After they were wed they moved to Amherst where they would go on to have 3 children.

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Charyn, Jerome. A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century. New York City, Bellevue Literary Press, 2016.

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1840, April

The Dickinsons purchase and move to a house (no longer standing) on North Pleasant Street in Amherst.

1850, February

The earliest record of Emily Dickinson's poetry in publication. "Magnum bonum, harem scarem" is published in the Amherst College Indicator as a valentine letter.

1851, February

Emily Dickinson's earliest known message to Susan Huntington Gilbert. Susan, a lifelong friend and early champion of Dickinson's poetry, would go on to receive more than 250 poems from Dickinson, more than sent to any other correspondent.

"Don't forget all the little friends who have tried so hard to be sisters, when indeed you were alone!" (Dickinson in an early letter to Susan, L101)

1852, February 20

The Springfield Daily Republican publishes Dickinson's "Sic transit gloria mundi" anonymously as "A Valentine."

About 1858

Emily Dickinson begins collecting her poems into small packets, today called "fascicles." This practice continues until 1864.

1861, April 12

The Civil War begins

" Sorrow seems more general than it did, and not the estate of a few persons, since the war began; and if the anguish of others helped one with one's own, now would be many medicines ..." (Dickinson, L436)

Early 1860s

Emily Dickinson's reclusiveness increases. While the origin of this departure from social life is specifically unknown, Dickinson's withdrawal from society also marks the beginning of one of her most productive times, artistically.
"A Charm invests a face Imperfectly beheld - The Lady dare not lift her Vail - For fear it be dispelled - But peers beyond her mesh - And wishes - and denies - Lest interview - annul a want - That Image - satisfies-" (Dickinson, Fr430A)

1863, September

From late April to November, 1864, Emily Dickinson spends many months in Cambridge, Massachusetts for treatment of a severe, disabling eye condition. During these two months with Boston's leading ophthalmologist, Dr. Henry Willard Williams, Dickinson lives with her cousins Louisa and Frances Norcross in Cambridge.
"The eyes are as with you, sometimes easy, sometimes sad. I think they are not worse, nor do I think them better than when I came home. The snow light offends them, and the house is bright ... Vinnie [is] good to me, but 'cannot see why I don't get well.' This makes me think I am long sick, and this takes the ache to my eyes." (Dickinson, L430, 433, 439)

1865, November 29

Birth of Martha Dickinson Bianchi, Emily Dickinson's niece

1866, 27 January

Death of Carlo, Emily Dickinson's Newfoundland

"Carlo died - [...] would you instruct me now? " (Dickinson, L454)

1869

The Dickinson family hires Margaret Maher as their primary domestic help. She would remain with the Dickinsons for thirty years.

1874, June 16

Edward Dickinson dies in a Boston boarding house following his collapse while giving a speech in the Massachusetts state legislature. Edward's death away from Amherst strikes Emily Dickinson and the rest of the Dickinson family as particularly tragic; the family has been robbed of a proper goodbye, all together, left only with the "Silence" of death.

" There marauds a sorer Robber -
Silence -" (Dickinson, Fr1315)

1875, August 1

Birth of Gilbert ("Gib") Dickinson, Emily Dickinson's nephew
"Emily and all that she has are at Sue's service, if of any comfort to Baby - Will send Maggie, if you will accept her." (Dickinson, in a message to Susan)

1883, 5 October

At barely eight years old, Gilbert ("Gib") Dickinson dies tragically of typhoid fever. Gib was a delightful, intelligent little boy, whose "fascinating ways" and "witty little sayings" charmed everyone. Beyond the great love his father and mother had for him, Gib was also the last hope for Austin and Susan to carry on the Dickinson name.
"Gilbert rejoiced in Secrets - His Life was panting with them ... No crescent was this Creature - He traveled from the Full - Such soar, but never set ... Without a speculation, our little Ajax spans the whole..." (Dickinson, L800-801)

1890, November 12

Mabel Loomis Todd publishes the first edition of Poems by Emily Dickinson (Boston: Roberts Brothers). The popular reception of this first edition of Poems initiates the publication of the Second Series (1891) and the Third Series (1896) of Poems. Mabel Loomis Todd, as editor, publishes Letters of Emily Dickinson in two volumes in 1894.

1914

Emily's niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi publishes poems sent by her aunt to her mother, Susan Gilbert Dickinson in A Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime. Martha Dickinson Bianchi would go on to publish many subsequent editions of her aunt's poetry and letters, renewing the 20 th century public's interest in the life and work of Emily Dickinson.

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A Timeline of Emily Dickinson's Life and Legacy

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The Dickinsons purchase and move to a house (no longer standing) on North Pleasant Street in Amherst. The earliest record of Emily Dickinson's poetry in publication. "Magnum bonum, harem scarem" is published in the Amherst College Indicator as a valentine letter. Emily Dickinson's earliest known message to Susan Huntington Gilbert.

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Birth of Emily Dickinson - 1830, 10 December

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Birth of Emily Dickinson - 1830, 10 December