The Books Briefing: The Power of Friendship
The influential role of platonic intimacy: Your weekly guide to the best in books
by Myles Poydras
Jul 03, 2020
2 minutes
Emily Dickinson wrote a letter to a stranger in 1870 in which she asked the recipient, the writer Thomas Wentworth Higginson, to read a few of her poems. The letter sparked an enduring correspondence between the two, who became friends before eventually meeting eight years later. The friendship was said to have changed Dickinson, giving her. The authors (and friends) Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney, in ,also document literary friendships, focusing on the influential relationships that some famous women writers had with one another.
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