Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert

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"She looks like a fairy tonight,"

- Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert. October 1851

they are so right

• Love Letter from Emily Dickinson to Susan Gilbert

• Heaven by Mitski

Four years since the release of Dickinson!!!🫀

When I look around me and find myself alone, I sigh for you again; little sigh, and vain sigh, which will not bring you home.

Emily Dickinson.

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⚠️ : A Sapphic Poet being Delusional

I’d like to pretend I was emily dickinson in a past life because why else am I so obsessed with a love story that is not mine? it’s such a significant piece of me, and I have no clue why.

anyway, I see emily dickinson in everything i write. I just wish I could have been a fly on the wall in the Dickinson household and witness how everything played out.

I’d get to see her and susan’s childhood as best friends, when emily realized she had fallen in love with her, and watch her write sentimental poems that would later make her one of the greatest poets in history.. literally anything, no matter how small. because that would have been a life well lived.

(idk how long flys live but just play along)

(oh and tbh, i’d lose my shit if my secret lover and brother were “together”, even if their love was fake. idk how she kept her calm)

emily dickinson was onto something

to be loved like this

What do you think about Emily Dickinson’s love life?

Hi! Thank you so much for your ask!

As I've said here, there have been many speculations about Emily Dickinson's love life, though she never married. Some of these possible love interests include Charles Wadsworth, Samuel Bowles and Judge Otis P. Lord, but more interestingly, in my opinion, Susan Gilbert, Emily's friend and sister in law.

Susan and Emily lived in the same town and attended the same school, Amherst Academy, as well. In 1853, Susan had married Emily's brother Austin too.

It's no secret that Emily and Susan were close and that Emily confided in her and valued her opinion. In a letter, she's compared Susan to Shakespeare as well. There were more than 500 letters, most of them expressing "strong homoerotic feelings" (as said by Lena Koski in The Emily Dickinson Journal)

In modern media, their relationship is portrayed to be a romantic one, rightfully so based on the evidence and letters between the two. Emily wrote passionately to Susan, and trusted her too.

To this day, scholars debate whether Emily and Susan were romantically involved. Though I've not dedicated nearly as much time and research towards this debate, I believe that there was chemistry between the two that is much more than friendship. Honestly, it's difficult to label what the two had as "sisterhood" or just "friendship" when there are so many romantic connotations behind the letter. In my opinion, Emily has perfectly captured the essence of true love through her letters to Susan, and expresses it beautifully.

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Yelena learns a lot about emotions while spending time with Kate. Now, how to deal with them? That’s another story. *Guest appearance: Susan Gilbert (Dickinson) But in the marvel universe.

Chapters 4:

Just as Yelena has begun to process and accept her own feelings, another discovery is thrown into the mix when she has to perform an emergency rescue... courtesy of Susan.

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