Correspondence with Cousins Frances and Louisa Norcross
Poet involved
What happened
Emily Dickinson maintained a lifelong correspondence with her cousins, Frances 'Fanny' and Louisa 'Loo' Norcross, the daughters of her aunt Lavinia Norcross, in Monson, Massachusetts. The cousins were among Dickinson's most trusted confidantes and recipients of many of her poems.
Literary impact
The Norcross cousins provided Dickinson with a sympathetic and admiring audience for her poetry, receiving many of the poems she chose not to send to other correspondents. Their letters to Dickinson, and hers to them, reveal the poet's playful, affectionate side and demonstrate how her poetry functioned as a medium of intimate connection within her extended family circle.
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