tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post7887936298009811300..comments2024-03-28T18:48:28.471-07:00Comments on the prowling Bee: I never lost as much but twiceSusan Kornfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-1916997040806980962022-05-02T12:18:38.879-07:002022-05-02T12:18:38.879-07:00Perhaps these are the three friends ED is thinking...Perhaps these are the three friends ED is thinking of in "I never lost as much but twice":<br /><br />ED's awakening to the reality of death came when Sophia Holland, died on 29 April 1844 [of typhus, “brain fever”]. [ED, age 14,] was [in the room with Sophia until just before her death and returned to the room immediately after]. [She was] so deeply affected that her parents sent her to visit Mrs. Dickinson's sister Lavinia (Mrs. Loring Norcross) in Boston.<br /><br />Her roommate [at Holyoke] was Emily Lavinia Norcross, a first cousin and ……..a senior]. Emily Norcross died at age 24 on July 2, 1852 of tuberculosis….. This cousin’s presence alleviated but could not cure the terrible homesickness that oppressed Emily………The two seem to have got on well, the poet pronouncing her cousin an “excellent room-mate,” one who did “all in her power to make me happy.” At the opening of the second term, Dickinson was relieved when Emily Norcross finally showed up, ten days late.<br /><br />Benjamin Franklin Newton died March 24, 1853 at age 32 of tuberculosis. He provided formative encouragement when ED was 21.Larry Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02810899482852120751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-1271850141511984572022-04-29T18:38:29.150-07:002022-04-29T18:38:29.150-07:00Deaths from Tuberculosis among ED's friends an...Deaths from Tuberculosis among ED's friends and family<br /><br />YEAR NAME AGE AT DEATH <br /><br />1836 Amanda Brown Norcross Stearns 33<br />1837 Harriet Arms Gilbert (Sue's mother) 44 or 45<br />1840 Lucretia Gunn Dickinson 64<br />1844 Deborah W. V. Fiske 38<br />1844 Harriet Webster Fowler 46<br />1844 Fanny D. Holland (Sophia Holland's mother) 50<br />1844 Elizabeth W. Parsons (wife of Rev. David) 55<br />1847 Olivia M. Coleman 19<br />1848 Jacob Holt 26<br />1851 Abby Haskell (L189, 197) 19<br />1852 Emily Lavinia Norcross 24<br />1852 Mary Dickinson Newman 43<br />1852 Mark Haskell Newman 46<br />1853 Benjamin Franklin Newton 32<br />1857 Eliza O. T. Boyden 36 <br />1857 Dr. Campbell Ladd Turner 26<br />1860 Martha P. Snell 24<br />1860 Lavinia Norcross Norcross 48<br />1861 Caroline P. Dutch Hunt 61 or 62 <br />1861 Lucy Waterman Dwight (Rev. Dwight's wife) <br />1862 Lamira Jones Norcross 29<br />1863 William 0. Norcross 56<br />1866 Chester E. Dickinson (Bela's son: L509) 17<br />1869 Sarah D. Hunt (Caroline Hunt's daughter) 32<br />1871 Maria Flynt Coleman 69 <br />1871 Eliza Coleman Dudley 39<br />1871 Mary Maher 20<br />1877 Lizzie Carmichael Mather 41<br />1882 Ethel Stearns (L742) 17<br />1882 Mary E. Donohue (L753) 16 <br />1862 Lamira Jones Norcross 29 <br />1863 William 0. Norcross 56<br />1866 Chester E. Dickinson (Bela's son: L509) 17<br />1869 Sarah D. Hunt (Caroline Hunt's daughter) 32<br />1871 Maria Flynt Coleman 69 <br />1871 Eliza Coleman Dudley 39<br />1871 Mary Maher 20<br />1877 Lizzie Carmichael Mather 41<br />1882 Ethel Stearns (L742) 17<br />1882 Mary E. Donohue (L753) 16Larry Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02810899482852120751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-3784011267669525032022-04-11T16:06:30.454-07:002022-04-11T16:06:30.454-07:00Twice ED begged God to spare a best friend and twi...Twice ED begged God to spare a best friend and twice her prayers failed. Twice ED found someone she loved as much as she had loved them, but now for a third time her closest friend has died and left ED bereft. Wouldn't you be angry? If it were me, I'd scream "Three strikes, You're out!" ED wasn't Job.Larry Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02810899482852120751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-25731686209826990202020-10-09T07:32:37.729-07:002020-10-09T07:32:37.729-07:00Please give literary devicePlease give literary deviceAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12575841421958601177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-46614333551489928932020-04-26T01:06:45.072-07:002020-04-26T01:06:45.072-07:00I find it very helpful specially the Burgler allus...I find it very helpful specially the Burgler allusion to the Lord's second coming.Artless Cannibalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06575174482608963598noreply@blogger.com