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8 de dez. de 2016 · Despite oddities of punctuation, diction, rhyme, and rhythm, her cumulative achievement surprised Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, her first editors. No one, not even her sister Lavinia, had foreseen such a large and powerful body of work.
In preparing Emily's poetry for publication, which was also marred by family controversies, "she and co-editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson altered words, changed Dickinson’s punctuation, capitalization and syntax to make her poetry closer to the conventions of 19th century verse.
All those enlisted for this first stage of introducing a remarkable poet—Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson—quickly identified the letters she had written to family and friends as too closely identified with the poems to be disregarded.
Todd enlisted the help of Thomas Wentworth Higginson in the selection process, the two making changes in punctuation and some rhymes, and adding titles, attempting to shape Emily Dickinson’s unusual verse forms to the tastes of late 19th-century readers.
After Dickinson’s death, Higginson assisted Mabel Loomis Todd in editing her poems, lending his considerable literary influence to the eventual publication by Roberts Brothers, Boston, of a first series in 1890 and a second the following year.
Mabel Todd's Amherst period (1881-1917) was most significant for her connection with the Dickinson family and her publication, with Thomas Wentworth Higginson, of Emily Dickinson's poems.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson as coeditor, the first two volumes appeared; thereafter, Mabel served as single editor of a third volume of poetry plus the two volumes of the poet's letters. A legal struggle in 1896 developed between Lavinia Dickinson and the Todds over a strip of land that had been a part of Austin's patrimony.
