Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical. The Poetry Foundation describes her as having "create
The Dickinson Children, with Emily on the left, c. 1840. From the Dickinson Room at Houghton Library, Harvard University.
The Evergreens, built by Edward Dickinson, was the home of Austin and Susan's family.
In 2012, the Amherst College Archives and Special Collections unveiled this daguerreotype, proposing it to be Dickinson (left) and her friend Kate Scott Turner, c. 1859. It has not been authenticated.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson in uniform. He was colonel of the First South Carolina Volunteers from 1862 to 1864.