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Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932

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Mabel Loomis Todd
Born: November 10, 1856
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Died: October 14, 1932
Hog Island, Maine
Occupation: writer and editor
Nationality: U.S.
Subjects: Emily Dickinson

Mabel Loomis Todd or Mabel Loomis (November 10, 1856 - October 14, 1932) was an U.S. editor and writer, and wife of astronomer David Peck Todd. She is remembered as editor of posthumously published editions of Emily Dickinson.

Todd was born Mabel Loomis in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She graduated from Georgetown Seminary in Washington, then studied music at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

On March 5, 1879, she married astronomer David Peck Todd, with whom she had one daughter, Millicent. She later had an affair with Austin Dickinson, the (married) brother of Emily. [1]

She became friends with the Dickinsons, and though she never met Emily Dickinson in person, they exchanged letters. After Emilys death in 1886, hundreds of her unpublished poems were discovered, and Todd was chosen as editor by the family. In 1888, her endeavor was joined by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The first volume of Poems by Emily Dickinson was published in 1890.

Todd was a member of the Audubon Society.

Todd died in Hog Island, Maine.

Own works

  • Footprints (1883)
  • Total Eclipses of the Sun (1894)
  • Corona and Coronet (1898)
  • A Cycle of Sunsets (1910)
  • Tripoli the Mysterious (1912)

External links

References

  1. ^ Austin and Mabel: The Amherst Affair & Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd (ISBN 0-374-10716-5)
Persondata
NAME Todd, Mabel Loomis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loomis, Mabel
SHORT DESCRIPTION editor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1932
PLACE OF DEATH Hog Island, Maine

This biographical information was gathered from the Mabel_Loomis_Todd page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

Books

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series Two
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series

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