Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Josiah Gilbert Holland was an American novelist, essayist, poet and spiritual mentor to the country in the years following the Civil War.
J.G. Holland in undated photograph
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Josiah Gilbert Holland and others on the porch of Bonniecastle, Alexandria Bay, New York
Emily Dickinson
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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 Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical.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
Josiah Gilbert Holland
…an African American. One of Holland's novels was among the earliest examples of the genre that became literary realism and he published a few poems of Emily Dickinson's in The Republican, the newspaper he edited. Holland and his wife, Elizabeth Luna Chapin, were close friends with her. Holland became a popular Lyceum…
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.