![]() We simply don’t know if it ever was any physical love relation though the introduction to this book indicates Emily’s feelings for Susan were sexual. ![]() ![]() If the ladies were more than friends cannot be estimated from the letters only. The letters who not only depict family matters give us somewhat new information on how the women worked on Emily’s poetry and how the friendship developed between the over the years. The letters are important since they spur a continuous 36-years correspondence between Emily and Susan who ended up living as neighbours at Amherst. She read and commented on Emily’s poetry. She also travelled a lot, wrote a lot and edited a lot. It contains the letters written by Emily to her friend and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington (1830-1913). This volume of compiled and selected letters written by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was edited by Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith. ![]()
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