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| | The Emily Dickinson Journal Volume IV.2 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Although Maria Lowell's name was apparently new to Dickinson, she seemed interested in pursuing the recommendation.3 In the f irst letter, which reiterated her delight in Higginson's correspondence and af f irmed "her solemn indebtedness to him" (L352), she reported, "After you went. |
 | | Maria Lowell did not always seek recognition for her hand in her husband's work, and in keeping with the decorum of her age, often permitted her own contributions to his success to be ef faced, omissions her contemporaries would have perceived as due to love rather than to piracy. |
 | | Although Maria White Lowell left only a slim collection of poems, Higginson would have known her not only as an inspiration to the work of her husband, himself, and others, but as herself a versatile poet, attempting a range of subjects and forms to express a range of female experience. |
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