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Who was the subject of at least eleven of Dickinson's poems?

  • Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson

  • Lavinia Dickinson

  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  • Mabel Loomis Todd

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At least eleven of Emily Dickinson's poems were dedicated to her sister-in-law Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson. Many scholars have interpreted their relationship as romantic.
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