Friendship with Samuel Bowles, Editor of Springfield Republican
Poet involved
What happened
In the late 1850s, Emily Dickinson and her family befriended Samuel Bowles, the owner and editor-in-chief of the Springfield Republican newspaper, and his wife Mary, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Bowles became one of Dickinson's most important correspondents and published several of her poems.
Literary impact
Bowles's editorial interest in Dickinson's work provided her with a rare, if ambivalent, connection to the literary marketplace. Their friendship, conducted largely through letters, gave Dickinson an audience for her poems outside her immediate family circle and influenced her thinking about publication, even as she maintained her characteristic resistance to public exposure.
Source: Wikipedia
