
Emily Dickinson Part 2
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
After Emily, Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet by Julie Dobrau
The story of what happened to Emily Dickinson's poems after her death is so involved and so much back and forth that I am literally going to recommend a book right now. There was a man named Thomas Johnson, who basically went back to the originals and erased those decades of editing and word replacements and punctuation deletions. He attempted to put them in some sort of chronological order, which was something that hadn't ever been done before. After Emily, Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet by Julie Dobrau will give you more detail. It actually tells the story of Mabel Todd and her daughter Millicent.
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