Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson
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About
American writer and poet best known as the sister-in-law of Emily Dickinson. She wrote several stories for the Springfield Republican. Her poems include "Love's Reckoning" and "One Asked, When Was the Grief?"
Before Fame
She attended Utica Female Academy and Amherst Academy.
Trivia
Although she was an Anglican, she considered converting to Roman Catholicism. She wrote Emily Dickinson's obituary.
Family Life
She was married to William Austin Dickinson from 1856 to 1895.
Associated With
The house she lived in with her husband contained one of Antonio Canova's sculptures.
