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Martha Gilbert Dickinson (Bianchi)

1866–1943


Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi (1866–1943), born in Amherst, Massachusetts, was the niece of the poet Emily Dickinson and grew up in the house next to hers. She wrote verse and fiction under the name Martha Gilbert Dickinson before her marriage to Alexander E. Bianchi.

Her best-known work as an editor was the posthumous publication of her aunt's poems and letters, but she also published her own poems, several of which Edmund Clarence Stedman reprinted in An American Anthology (1900).

  1. Reality
  2. A Priest's Prayer
  3. Forgiveness Lane
  4. Separation
  5. Unanswered
  6. Her Music
  7. Heaven

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