Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson (December 19, 1830 – May 12, 1913) was an American writer, poet, traveler, and editor. She was a lifelong friend and sister-in-law of poet Emily Dickinson.

2018年12月10日 · Four months before her twentieth birthday, Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830–May 15, 1886) met the person who became her first love and remained her greatest — an orphaned mathematician-in-training by the name of Susan Gilbert, nine days her junior.

Susan, a writer herself, was the most familiar of all the family members with Dickinson’s poetry, having received more than 250 poems from her over the years. At least once she offered constructive criticism and advice. Susan wrote the poet’s remarkable obituary, which appeared in the Springfield Republican on May 18, 1886.

Dickinson herself characterized their relationship in literary terms--comparing her love for Susan to Dante's love for Beatrice, Swift's for Stella, and Mirabeau's for Sophie de Ruffey (H B95; OMC 165), and comparing her tutelage with Susan to one with Shakespeare (OMC 229). Clearly, she valued Sue's opinions about writing and reading, and both ...

Emily Dickinson’s most extensive correspondence was with her sister-in-law, lifelong friend, and potential romantic interest, Susan Huntington Dickinson. Throughout her life, Dickinson sent over 250 poems to Susan, who lived next door in The Evergreens from 1856 through the end of …

Mrs. Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, widow of William Austin Dickinson, died at her home, the Evergreens, in Amherst yesterday, in her 83rd year, from heart disease. She had been seriously ill for a number of weeks, and for several days her …

2022年1月18日 · Susan Huntington (Gilbert) Dickinson was a close and dear friend of Emily Dickinson, and wife of Emily's brother William "Austin" Austin Dickinson. She was the daughter of Thomas & Harriet Huntington (Arms) Gilbert.

2024年5月12日 · Susan Gilbert Dickinson became Emily Dickinson's sister-in-law, but she also served Emily's poetic talent by advising Emily about books to read and ideas to consider. Susan thus played an important rôle in Emily's pursuit of empirical knowledge.

According to the surviving documents of Dickinson's writings habits, Susan is the only reader for whom we can document Emily changed a poem. The youngest of six children born to Thomas and Harriet Arms Gilbert, Susan was orphaned by age 11 -- …

Austin’s marriage to Susan Huntington Gilbert in 1856 solidified the place in the family of one of Dickinson’s dearest friends. Susan’s friendship helped expand the poet’s horizons, and their sharing of books and ideas was a vital component of her intellectual life.