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Emily Dickinson
Poet Emily Dickinson is one of American poetry's most singular and influential voices.
After Emily Dickinson died in 1886, her sister, Lavinia Dickinson, discovered the poet's manuscript-books, which contained hundreds of poems neatly bundled away.12
Following the discovery, Lavinia decided the poems should be published and initially asked Susan Gilbert Dickinson to prepare them for the public. When Susan failed to move the project forward, Lavinia turned the manuscripts over to Mabel Loomis Todd, a local family friend. Todd, with the assistance of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, subsequently edited and selected the poems for the first posthumous editions of Dickinson's work.12