Her Own Society

When Emily Dickinson and her radical friend Thomas Wentworth Higginson met for the first time

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Brenda Wineapple is a member of the editorial board of The American Scholar. She is the author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877.

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