| Kate Scott Turner | |
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.jpg) Turner (right) in 1859 | |
| Born | Catherine Mary Scott (1831-03-12)March 12, 1831 Cooperstown, New York, U.S. |
| Died | 1917(1917-00-00) (aged 85–86) England |
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Catherine Mary Scott Turner (March 12, 1831 – 1917) was an American poet and a friend of poet Emily Dickinson. 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 brother Austin Dickinson. 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.
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:
When Katie walks, this simple pair accompany her side,
— Emily Dickinson
When Katie runs unwearied they follow on the road,
When Katie kneels, their loving hands still clasp her pious knee —
Ah! Katie! Smile at Fortune, with two so knit to thee!
References
- Rebecca Patterson (1951). The Riddle of Emily Dickinson. Houghton Mifflin.
- ^ 'The World Is Not Acquainted With Us': A New Dickinson Daguerreotype?" Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Website. September 6, 2012.
- ^ Emily Dickinson (June 1998). The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Harvard University Press. p. 1189. ISBN 978-0-674-67601-5.
- ^ Wathira Nganga (September 5, 2012). "Amherst College claims to have rare photograph of Emily Dickinson". Amherst University. Archived from the original on March 23, 2016. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
- "Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson (1830–1913), sister-in-law". Emily Dickinson Museum. Retrieved July 21, 2017.
Further reading
- Kathleen Bonsall (2015). "Kate's Keepsakes, Book One: A Kiss for Emily". The Emily Dickinson Journal. 24 (1): 96–101. doi:10.1353/edj.2015.0011. S2CID 170670913 – via Project MUSE.
- John Ciardi (1952). "Review: The Riddle of Emily Dickinson by Rebecca Patterson". The New England Quarterly. 25 (1): 93–98. doi:10.2307/363036. JSTOR 363036.
- Sharon Leiter (2007). Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4381-0843-8.
External links
- Dickinson / Anthon Correspondence and Poems, Dickinson Electronic Archives