Susan taught in Baltimore 1851-1852, and became engaged to Austin in November 1853.Īustin and Susan Dickinson had three children: Edward, called Ned (1861-1898) Martha (1866-1943), who married Alexander Bianchi in 1903 and Gilbert (1875-1883). Emily and Austin Dickinson became acquainted with her when she came to live with her sister Harriet Gilbert Cutler in Amherst in 1850. She was then raised by an aunt, and attended Utica Female Academy. Her mother died in 1837, and her father in 1841. of Dickinsons poems, before Hart and Smith made the book edition Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinsons Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson. Susan Dickinson was the youngest daughter of Thomas and Harriet Arms Gilbert. Austin practiced law in Amherst, and succeeded his father as Treasurer of Amherst College in 1873. He married Susan Huntington Gilbert (1830-1913) on 1 July 1856 as a wedding present, Edward Dickinson built the couple The Evergreens next door to the Dickinson's house, called the Homestead. Edited by Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith. Emily's older brother, William Austin Dickinson (1829-1895 usually referred to as Austin) attended Amherst College, then Harvard Law School. Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinsons Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson. The poet Emily Dickinson formed a close relationship with her brother's family, particularly with her sister-in-law Susan Huntington Dickinson, to whom most of the letters and poems in this collection were sent.
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