Todd, Mabel Loomis

Todd, Mabel Loomis,

1858–1932, American author, b. Cambridge, Mass. A friend of Emily DickinsonDickinson, Emily,
1830–86, American poet, b. Amherst, Mass. She is widely considered one of the greatest poets in American literature. Her unique, gemlike lyrics are distillations of profound feeling and original intellect that stand outside the mainstream of 19th-century
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, she edited and deciphered much of the Dickinson material in Poems (with T. W. Higginson, Ser. 1 and Ser. 2, 1890–91), Letters of Emily Dickinson (2 vol., 1894), and Poems (Ser. 3, 1896). Todd also wrote poetry and a textbook, Total Eclipses of the Sun (1894).