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Martha Dickinson Bianchi
Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1866 - 1943), was an American poet, novelist, and editor. She is best known for her role in editing and publishing the work of her aunt, poet Emily Dickinson, and for her poems about World War I.

Biography
Born Martha Dickinson (also called "Mattie") on November 30, 1866, in Amherst, Massachusetts, the second child of William Austin Dickinson and Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson. She had two siblings: an elder brother Edward (Ned) Dickinson born 1861, and a younger brother Thomas (Gib) Gilbert Dickinson, born 1875.

The family lived together in a home called the Evergreens, adjacent to Austin’s family home the Homestead, where her paternal grandparents Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson, and her aunts Emily and Lavinia Dickinson lived. Both brothers died before Martha did, first Gib in 1979 at age seven after contracting typhoid fever, and later Ned in 1898 at age thirty-seven. Martha was left the only heir to the Dickinson estate.

Martha attended three different private schools (Miss Howland’s from 1879 to 1875, Miss Marsh’s from 1882 to 1883, and Miss Porter’s from 1884 to 1885). She was an accomplished piano player, and later went to Smith College School of Music, from 1885 to 1889. She started writing poetry in 1896, and traveled extensively in Europe.

While traveling in Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic) in 1902, Martha married Alexander Bianchi, a captain in the Russian Imperial Horse Guards. Bianchi was later jailed on charges of fraud. They separated in 1905/08, and officially divorced in 1920.

Writing and Editing
Martha is best known for her work compiling and publishing Emily Dickinson’s poetry, and letters, alongside biographical writing and remembrances of her aunt.

She was also a writer herself. She started publishing poems in newspapers and magazines, such as The Springfield Republican, Scribner’s Magazine, Vogue, Life, The Atlantic Monthly, The Boston Transcript, The New England Magazine, and Harper’s New Monthly Magazine.

She published

and were published in dedicated volumes. Her first novel The Cuckoo’s Nest was published in 1909, and was followed by A Cossack Lover in 1911, and The Kiss of Apollo in 1915.