HUNTING & PECKING AWAY: On Mabel's Newfangled Typewriter & Emily's Newfangled Poems (March 21, 2023)

Part of the Typewriter Talks series, this lecture by Julie Dobrow, author of AFTER EMILY: TWO REMARKABLE WOMEN & THE LEGACY OF AMERICA'S GREATEST POET (Norton, 2018), explores the complicated path to publishing Dickinson's first collection and the instrumental role that Mabel Loomis Todd played, including her pioneering use of typewriters in the transcription process.
Sponsored by the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University.
Recorded on March 21, 2023, in the Edison-Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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