Nature's People
Schaefer, Tom
When Emily Dickinson died in 1886, her sister learned of a cache of unknown poems which she was determined to see published. In time the task fell to Mabel Loomis Todd, a socialite in town who just so happened to be having a long-term affair with the sisters' brother, Austin. It is because of Mabel Loomis Todd that we know Emily Dickinson today.
While Dickinson scholars have parsed her contributions to Emily's portfolio of poems and letters...