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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.
Dec 10, 2018 · 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. Throughout the poet’s life, Susan would be her muse, her mentor, her primary reader and ...
Susan Dickinson, n.d. Susan Huntington Gilbert was born on December 19, 1830, in Deerfield, Massachusetts, the youngest of seven children of Thomas and Harriet Arms Gilbert. After the death of her mother in 1835, she was raised with her sisters in Geneva, New York, by her aunt Sophia van Vranken.
Susan and Austin had three children, Edward (Ned; born 1861), Martha (Mattie or Mopsy; born 1866), and Thomas Gilbert (Gib; born 1875). Both of her sons preceded Susan in death (Gib in 1883 and Ned in 1898). Susan has been called the "most graceful woman in Western Massachusetts" (Bianchi q.
During the first century of public distribution of her literary work, many facts about Emily Dickinson's writing practices and about her decades-long alliance with her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, have become clearer.
Emily Dickinson’s most extensive correspondence was with her sister-in-law, lifelong friend, and potential romantic interest, Susan Huntington Dickinson. Throughout her life, Dickinson sent over 250 poems to Susan, who lived next door in The Evergreens from 1856 through the end of her life.
"The Encoding of Homoerotic Desire: Emily Dickinson's Letters and Poems to Susan Dickinson, 1850-1886." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 9.2 (Fall 1990): 251-272. --- and Martha Nell Smith, eds. Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson.
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.
Jan 10, 2008 · Introduction. Over a century after the Springfield Republican printed Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson's eloquent and loving homage to Emily, there still exists no finer synopsis of the poet's life and genius, or greater testament to the intense and intimate bond between these women.
Dec 10, 2014 · Her most frequent correspondent, and a person now thought to have been the inspiration for much of her passionate material, was close friend (and, from 1856 onwards, sister-in-law) Susan Huntington Gilbert, a lady who provoked some undeniably intimate and romantic letters from the poet, the intensity of which to this day generate speculation ...
