After an examination of these cryptic messages,Įllen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith have emerged up in arms for Susan. At the very least, most scholars agree that Susan was a force to be reckoned with.ĭickinson's surviving letters to Susan, which began ardently a few years before Susan's marriage and continued almost until the poet's death in 1886, outnumber her letters to anyone else. After all, it was Susan who prepared the poet'sīody for burial and wrote her obituary. Possibly no more credible is Martha Dickinson Bianchi, Susan and Austin's daughter, who insisted that the affection between her much-maligned mother and ''Aunt Emily'' never waned. Was a ruthless social snubber who had wronged Emily may be problematic, given that their source is Mabel Loomis Todd, with whom Austin carried on a highly public, lasting affair. Has handed down a tale of two young impassioned friends who, while eventually living only ''a hedge away'' from each other on Main Street in Amherst, Mass., went on to have a 15-year falling-out. '' Dickinson's complex relationship with Susan, the wife of her brother, Austin, remains a knotty one for biographers.
Is a Siren - / and that at a / word from her, / Emily would / forfeit Righteousness. T some point during the late 1870's Emily Dickinson wrote the following lines to her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson: ''Susan knows / she Emily Dickinson's letters to her sister-in-law are short, impassioned and not easy to interpret.
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