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Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
Open Me Carefully Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson Author:Emily Dickinson, Ellen Louise Hart, Martha Nell Smith Letters. For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence to her neighbor and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. OPEN ME CAREFULLY invites dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. "As this c... more »orrespondence shows ... Emily and Susan's relationship surpasses in depth, passion, and continuity the stereotype of the 'intimate exchange' between women friends of the period. The ardor of Dickinson's late teens and early twenties matured and deepened over the decades, and the romantic and erotic expressions from Emily to Susan continued until Dickinson's death in May 1886" (from the Introduction) Includes a selected bibliography and index.« less