Her Own Society
When Emily Dickinson and her radical friend Thomas Wentworth Higginson met for the first time
The author has not granted permission to display this article online. To order a single copy of the print edition in which it appears, write to us at scholar@pbk.org or look for it on newsstands. To enjoy the full contents of each new issue of The American Scholar as soon as it is printed, please subscribe today and save up to 33 percent off the single-copy price.