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Mabel Loomis Todd 1858-1932, American author, b. Cambridge, Mass. A friend of Emily Dickinson , 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).

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Todd, Mabel Loomis (1856–1932), Massachusetts author, wife of David Peck Todd, professor of astronomy at Amherst, came to know Emily Dickinson because she had a long and intense love affair with Emily's older brother, Austin. She edited two series of Emily's Poems (1890–91) with T.W. Higginson and then she alone edited a third series (1896) and the Letters of Emily Dickinson (2 vols., 1894). Her own books include popular works on science, a novel, and A Cycle of Sonnets (1896).

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