Essays - Summer 2008
Her Own Society
PrintWhen Emily Dickinson and her radical friend Thomas Wentworth Higginson met for the first time
By Brenda Wineapple
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Brenda Wineapple is a member of the editorial board of The American Scholar. Her last essay for the magazine, “Her Own Society,” adapted from White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, won a 2009 Pushcart Prize. Her anthology, Nineteenth-Century American Writers on Writing, a volume in The Writer’s World series, will be published in November.
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