Emily's Poems

Emily Dickinson's sister Vinnie was astonished by the poems she found after her death. She reached out to Mr. Higginson for advice on how to get them published. He demurred and said that he was too busy to take on such a project right then. Mabel Todd, who lived next door in the meadow, agreed to do it anyway. Jane Austen: "Their carelessness of form exasperated me ... I admired her strange words"