Poems: Second Series

Emily Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, e...

Discover the writings of Mabel Loomis Todd, an author who explored both poetry and nonfiction. Her published works include "Poems: Second Series" and "Short Nonfiction - Volume 073.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823 – May 9, 1911), who went by the name Wentworth,  was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, politician, and soldier. He was active in abolitionism in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. He was a member of the Secret Six who supported John Brown. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized black regi...