The New Colossus

In 18 88, the year after emma died, her cousin set up the emma lazarus club for working girls. The family refused to allow any of emma's pro jewish poetry to be reprinted after her death. Lazarus has become more enigmatic since her death. Questions related to her spinster life style arose in the second half of the twentieth century when a sonnet that she wrote,. titled assurance was published for the first time.