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Kate Scott Turner (March 12, 1831 – 1917) was an American poet and a friend of poet
Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Website. September 6, 2012.
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Kate Scott Turner (March 12, 1831 – 1917) was an American poet and a friend of poet Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.
Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massac ...
. She was also known as Kate Anthon.
Overview
Catherine Mary ("Kate") Scott was the daughter of Henry Scott of Cooperstown, New York. She attended the Utica Female Seminary, where in 1848 she met Susan Gilbert, who married Emily Dickinson's brotherAustin Dickinson
William Austin Dickinson (April 16, 1829 – August 16, 1895) was an American lawyer. Known to family and friends as "Austin", he was the older brother of the poet Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 1 ...
. The women remained friends until Susan's death in 1913.
In 1855, she married Campbell Ladd Turner, who died in 1857 of tuberculosis. Turner was acquainted with Emily Dickinson through Susan, and they remained so until the mid-1860s. Turner married for a second time in 1866 to John Hone Anthon, who died eight years later. She died in 1917 in England, having lived most of her life outside of the United States.'The World Is Not Acquainted With Us': A New Dickinson Daguerreotype?Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Website. September 6, 2012.
Emily Dickinson
She met Emily Dickinson in 1859. From that time until about 1862, Dickinson sent her four poems. One poem was sent with a pair of garters that Dickinson had knitted for her:References
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