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Elizabeth Barrett Browning significantly influenced Emily Dickinson. The collection, Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, edited by Charlotte Porter and Helen Clarke, was published in 1900 in six volumes and offers an excellent introduction to Browning's work.
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English, edited by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, is a comprehensive anthology featuring fiction, poetry, and prose by over 140 female writers. It also includes a biographical essay on Dickinson. This anthology was published in 1985.
Walt Whitman, a contemporary of Emily Dickinson, is perhaps most renowned for his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was first published in 1855.
Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis Parton) was a popular novelist during Dickinson's time who made a living through her writing. Her 1855 novel, Ruth Hall, tells the story of a woman succeeding in the male-dominated publishing industry.
Francis Ellen Watkins Harper was a nineteenth-century African-American poet who was active in the anti-slavery and women’s rights movements. She published several poetry collections, including Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854) and Poems (1871).
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