Emily Dickinson read the essay and then took the most unprecedented step of her life. That beginning line, with its two-word invitation to ladies, may have caught the eye of a 31-year-old woman living in Amherst, Massachusetts-a woman who did not entirely agree about the dashes. Use black ink and quality paper, and avoid sloppy dashes. Thomas Wentworth Higginson went on in “Letter to a Young Contributor” to offer advice to would-be writers seeking to publish. “My dear young gentleman or young lady,” the essay in the April 1862 issue of The Atlantic began.
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