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2:54

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2:56

old Penguin poetry classic. I'm

2:59

nobody. Who are you? Are you

3:01

nobody too? And I think Davia

3:03

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3:06

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3:09

keepers of the story, lured us

3:11

in. The

3:13

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3:15

Hidden Kitchen. Chapter

3:18

One. Black Cake. This

3:24

is Emily Dickinson herself in the left.

3:27

She's about eight or nine in that painting.

3:30

Her sister Lavinia is holding a picture of

3:32

a cat. Emily was more of a dog

3:34

person. We don't often think

3:36

of her as being a redhead, but there's a

3:38

little lock of her hair and it's definitely

3:40

that color. Emily was

3:42

referred to as the mist

3:45

not often seen. Notorious for

3:47

wearing white. Some people

3:49

knew that she wrote, but it wasn't

3:52

what she was known for. She was

3:54

probably better known as a baker than

3:56

a poet in her lifetime. Her

3:59

gender friends. was the

4:01

first thing that struck

4:03

me. I'm Jean McClure-Mudge,

4:05

writer. I lived in Emily

4:07

Dickinson's house in Amherst as

4:09

a faculty wife, first

4:11

resident curator. Emily

4:14

would bake gingerbread and little

4:16

oval cakes, put little flowers

4:18

on top, and lower them

4:20

in a bread basket from

4:22

her window to the children

4:24

below. They couldn't

4:26

see her. A mystery.

4:31

Emily Dickinson liked to shock people.

4:33

She liked to break rules. There

4:35

was a kind of rebellious freedom

4:37

in her inner world. She has

4:39

a poem that begins, they shut

4:41

me up in prose as when

4:43

a little girl, when they wanted

4:46

her to be still, and she

4:48

says, boy, they should have seen

4:50

the wheels in my brain go round. My

4:53

name is Christopher Bensey. I teach

4:55

at Mount Holyoke College where Emily

4:57

Dickinson spent a year of her

4:59

life. She was very well educated

5:01

for a woman of her time. She liked

5:03

science and botany. What she did

5:05

not like was one of the

5:08

stated purposes of the college, to

5:10

convert young women to the Christian

5:12

cause, finding Christ as their personal

5:15

savior. Christ is calling everyone here.

5:18

All my companions have answered. Even

5:21

my darling Vinnie believes she loves and trusts

5:23

him, and I am

5:25

standing alone in rebellion and growing

5:27

very careless. She was one of

5:29

the students who were declared without

5:31

hope. She said, some keep the

5:33

Sabbath going to church. I keep

5:36

it staying at home with

5:38

a bob-a-link for a chorister and

5:40

an orchard for a dome. My

5:43

name is Emily Elizabeth Dickinson.

5:46

Julie Harris, Ilabel of

5:48

Amherst. This is

5:50

my introduction. Black cake. It's

5:53

my own special recipe. I

5:55

do all the baking here at Homestead.

5:58

I even bound the spy. For

6:00

this cake, it's black cake.

6:03

It's two pounds of flour. The black cake,

6:05

this is a cake that calls for 19

6:08

eggs. Five

6:10

pounds of raisins, two pounds

6:12

of currant, two pounds

6:14

of butter, a substantial cake. All

6:18

assembled, it's 19 pounds and eight ounces.

6:20

That's before you put the brandy in.

6:23

Five teaspoons of clothes. Black

6:25

cake first appears in the

6:27

1840s in cookbooks. It's

6:31

Caribbean in its origin, the

6:33

cinnamon, the mace. It's

6:35

very tied up with the sugar trade

6:37

and molasses. Gently sprinkle in all eight

6:40

pounds. When you think about Emily Dickinson,

6:42

the mist in the white dress. When

6:44

you think about her in the kitchen,

6:47

the physicality of making that cake,

6:49

this is a social cake. So

6:52

counter to Emily and her remove

6:54

from the world. I

6:57

found one Emily Dickinson poem that

6:59

mentions a cake. I'm Heather

7:01

Cole. My name is Emily Walhouse. Emily

7:04

Hardman. We work at Houghton

7:06

Library at Harvard University. The poem was

7:08

sent to Nellie Sweetser with a gift

7:11

of cake and flowers. Blossoms

7:13

will run away. Cakes rain but

7:16

a day. But memory like melody

7:18

is pink eternally. This

7:21

is one of Dickinson's poems

7:23

from Ocessiple. He found booklets

7:25

that Dickinson copied her poems

7:27

into and sewed with kitchen

7:29

twine. Some of her poems were

7:31

published in her lifetime. But they

7:33

changed Emily's plant rhymes and gave

7:35

the poems titles to make them

7:37

more conventional. And that's not how

7:39

she wrote her poems. My life had stood

7:42

a loaded gun in

7:45

corners. She called them bulletins

7:47

from immortality. A

7:50

bolt had come down, the sky had parted, and

7:52

she was given this message.

7:55

People have wanted to turn her

7:57

into a nice lady poet, a

7:59

romantic. Version of her that

8:01

is not and true. It's

8:04

just probably partial. I'm

8:06

been male men I am a

8:08

poet. She did stay in her

8:10

room and she did have put

8:12

she refers to as her flight

8:14

election but he on her white

8:16

dress and going upstairs not going

8:18

out anymore. What choice did she

8:20

have in her time She couldn't

8:22

have gotten haranguing done by. Being.

8:25

And a spinster in the community.

8:27

That takes care of bodies coming home

8:29

from the Civil War Those on being

8:32

a nice church lady in a she

8:34

wrote seven hundred pounds in two years.

8:36

I mean seven hundred? For.

8:39

Pizza. Hate. This.

8:41

Is poems Six, Six Eight. By.

8:43

Emily Dickinson, Nature.

8:46

Is what we see. The

8:48

Hill. The. Afternoon. Squirrel.

8:51

The. The bundle

8:53

de. Ne nature

8:56

is heaven. Nature.

8:58

Is what we hear. The. Bob

9:00

a link to see. Thunder.

9:03

The. Cricket. May

9:06

nature's harmony. Nature

9:09

is what we know. Yet.

9:11

Have no are to say. So.

9:13

In prison. Or wisdom is.

9:16

To her simplicity.

9:19

She actually would write own chocolate rappers.

9:21

That's great news on the loop prunes

9:24

sort of in the flotsam and jetsam.

9:26

Move. Her the word

9:28

move. In the fragment of that

9:30

paper. This poem was composed on

9:33

the back of the coconut cake recipe. The.

9:35

Things that never can come

9:38

back. Or several. Childhood.

9:41

Some forms of hope. that

9:43

dad superbly and supremely it's

9:45

like her cooking and her

9:47

poetry were one the way

9:50

in which seed case friends

9:52

not only points that gifts

9:54

of cake they were offerings

9:56

attentions that's what people call

9:58

them between houses when friends

10:01

gave something that they had

10:03

made. In the

10:05

kitchen, in the bedroom, these

10:08

secret spaces where she could be

10:10

alone or with her own

10:13

select society, that really

10:15

was freedom. When

10:18

Emily Dickinson bakes bread,

10:20

there's something almost ecstatic

10:22

about it, satisfaction of

10:24

creativity. In one of

10:27

her early letters in 1850 to

10:29

her best friend Abaya Root, she

10:31

says, Twin loaves

10:34

of bread have just

10:36

been born into the

10:38

world under my auspices.

10:41

Fine children, the image of

10:43

their mother. And here,

10:46

my dear friend, is the

10:48

glory. Act

10:54

two, the soul selects

10:56

its own society. There

10:59

were two kitchens in Emily's life. She

11:02

lived in a house on Pleasant Street

11:04

next to the cemetery. And

11:06

that is the kitchen where Emily learned

11:09

to cook, how to make

11:11

bread, how to make desserts, how to

11:13

make wine. Her mother largely teaching her.

11:18

The mother and the parents really both

11:20

are very old fashioned. They

11:22

think they have such a small family. The

11:25

girls can do everything. It's good training for

11:27

them. Emily Dickinson, her sister's

11:29

at boarding school. Her brother's gone,

11:32

is managing three meals, cooked

11:35

meals a day on the table and

11:37

washing the dishes. She

11:39

would start a letter. It

11:41

would take her another week or so to get back to

11:43

it. She had this drive to

11:45

write and she was so thwarted. That's

11:48

when the lobbying started to hire a maid.

11:51

Wanted To hire a girl or

11:54

woman who is capable of doing

11:56

the entire work of a small

11:58

family. Amherst.

12:01

March says it's eighteen. Sixty.

12:04

I'm a summary author of

12:06

made his Muse. Has service

12:08

changed? Emily. Dickinson slice and

12:10

language. Eighteen. Fifty Five

12:13

Emily was twenty five when they

12:15

moved into the mansion this demanding

12:17

household. Her father was a leading

12:20

warrior, the mother was not well.

12:23

She. Turned over the

12:25

social and housekeeping regime

12:27

to her daughter's. Emily,

12:30

Miss the pleasantries. House

12:32

terribly She said I'm

12:34

out with lanterns looking

12:36

for myself. Within

12:38

months without most the first

12:41

want her made. Margaret Brian

12:43

has an Irish immigrant Tom's.

12:45

She's. There for nine years this an

12:48

immediate impact emily as time. To

12:50

sink in right when she felt

12:52

more confident about ourselves as a

12:54

poet. then the house became more

12:57

hers with her garden with the

12:59

proximity to Sue. When

13:01

Susan Gilbert came back to town

13:04

after going away to school. Emily

13:06

Dickinson and her brother Austin both

13:09

fell in love with her. They.

13:11

Both throat love letters to her.

13:13

They were both enchanted with her.

13:16

After Austin and so were married

13:18

austin father basically paid them to

13:21

stay in Amherst by building a

13:23

house for them. But gorgeous Evergrande

13:25

sex start of a homestead. Season.

13:28

And Emily Widmark that passages they liked

13:30

him that they sent them back. And

13:32

forth crossed the line. One sister

13:35

have I in our house and

13:37

one a hedge away is only.

13:39

One record at that. Both belonged

13:41

to me. one team. The way

13:44

that I came and warm well

13:46

past years down the other. As

13:49

a bird her nest ill did

13:51

our hearts among Emily Dickinson sans

13:53

more of her palms to Susan

13:56

than any other correspondent. the most

13:58

of her and most. No

14:00

charge was courses and and

14:02

says season was so much

14:04

her reader she's snitching as

14:07

house or something. Easy to

14:09

see. You and it's any

14:11

for t shirts and

14:13

very sweet in any

14:15

time Sir Scared of

14:17

says judgments? I

14:20

split into that took

14:22

the morning I chose

14:24

to single start from

14:26

out the wide numbers.

14:28

Sue for Evermore you

14:31

can see. How it goes

14:33

From almost as a sweet a

14:35

tall. And Co and one sister have I have

14:37

a house and one had to weigh. A

14:40

suite of and then accounts

14:42

for more wild. Oh plus

14:45

to do that took the

14:47

more. I chose his single

14:49

start from out the white. Knights

14:51

members to for evermore

14:53

his. Sleep

14:56

leave erotic paid unless the

14:58

so or by the end.

15:01

Success with us control at some

15:03

mason. Could. You you need

15:06

the Atlantic Monthly. In.

15:08

The April issue Eighteen Sixty

15:10

Two, an article appeared in

15:13

Fighting. Yahoo! Writers to

15:15

submit their work. Ah,

15:19

Charge. Your style was like.

15:22

Said. They offer sled were

15:24

second said. When

15:26

she first contact with Thomas not

15:29

worth Higginson and Eighteen Sixty Two

15:31

and asked if her poems breezed,

15:33

he sent her back his judgements

15:36

on the Palms not for encourage

15:38

and but he did what a

15:40

lot of party old literary men

15:42

would do and he said send

15:45

me a photograph of yourself to

15:47

bro could you believe me without

15:49

I have no portrait now but

15:52

I'm small, like the ram and

15:54

my hair as bold like the

15:56

chestnut. Bearer and my eyes

15:59

like that. from

18:00

my ambitions as firmament to

18:03

thin, you know, as

18:05

a fish on land. She sought

18:07

publication that she wanted to be

18:09

published, but at

18:11

a certain point she recognized

18:14

that publication is the auction of

18:16

the mind of man, as she

18:19

wrote, that she didn't want to have to

18:21

sell out. Not selling

18:23

out for her was doing her

18:26

self-published job of organizing

18:28

these fascicles and getting them into

18:31

the drawer, and that was going to be her. Like

18:33

a scene, she knew it. The

18:36

end of 1865, she's writing

18:38

almost the equivalent of a poem a day. Margaret

18:41

O'Brien leaves, they don't have a

18:43

permanent maid for three years. Her

18:47

writing drops to something

18:49

like 10 poems a year. In

18:52

the winter spring of 69, they

18:55

hire Margaret Maher, an Irish immigrant,

18:57

warm and wild and mighty. Margaret

19:00

shares the kitchen with Emily for 17 years,

19:03

and the writing starts to shoot up again.

19:07

Many of Dickinson's finished poems are stored

19:09

in Margaret Maher's trunk. Two

19:13

o'clock in the morning, a

19:15

night of great winds, she

19:17

reads Shakespeare for a while, the

19:20

insomnia of the recluse, thoughts

19:23

of him, thoughts of him cut

19:26

off from her as she says by the

19:28

decalogue, thoughts of

19:30

him, the winds are like the ocean, he

19:33

is like the ocean, wild

19:36

nights, wild

19:38

nights, would

19:41

I were with thee, wild

19:43

nights would be our luxury. There

19:47

are many theories about who the great master poems were to.

19:59

One was Judge Otis Lord. One

20:01

was Charles Wadsworth. She also

20:03

called Higginson master, signing

20:05

her letters your scholar, your

20:08

scholar, your student. Until

20:10

she felt that she was really

20:12

graduating from needing Higginson as a

20:15

critic and then she

20:17

started calling herself Higginson. The

20:21

zeras taught us phosphorus. We

20:24

learned to like the fire by

20:26

playing glaciers, when a boy

20:28

and tinder guessed

20:30

all power of opposite to

20:32

balance odd. If white,

20:35

a red must be. Paralysis

20:38

are primer, dumb

20:40

unto vitality. I get

20:43

most of it. The second

20:45

and third lines give me the clue to how

20:47

to read the rest of the poem. We

20:49

learned to like the fire by playing

20:52

glaciers. We learned to

20:54

like the most intense

20:56

states by experiencing the

20:58

opposite of those intense states. And

21:02

paralysis is a primer.

21:04

It's a rule book. When

21:07

we're feeling most paralyzed, that's

21:09

when we learn something. You

21:13

find her using the terminology

21:15

of science, of the carpenter,

21:19

of things in the world

21:21

around her as metaphors for

21:23

being. Sometimes her

21:25

poems are like recipes. To

21:28

make a prairie, it takes a clover and one

21:31

bee. One clover and

21:33

a bee and reverie. The

21:36

reverie alone will do if bees

21:39

are few. The influence

21:41

of the kitchen and the language

21:43

around her. Irish immigrants,

21:46

Native Americans, people who are of

21:48

African descent, slave descent, in and

21:50

out of the kitchen, coming

21:52

and going in that yard

21:54

and barn. All of these

21:56

different vernaculars play into the

21:58

ways in which she approaches it. I'm Alex

22:03

Schwartz.

22:13

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22:16

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22:51

Three. Tell all the truth. But

22:53

tell it's slam. The

22:57

homestead is a strange place for the last

22:59

10 years or so

23:01

of Emily Dickinson's life. This

23:04

promising young astronomer came to

23:06

Amherst with his dazzling wife,

23:09

Mabel Loomis Todd. Mabel Loomis

23:11

Todd was a very attractive,

23:14

vivacious, younger woman. Nobody in

23:16

Amherst had ever seen anybody

23:18

quite like Mabel Loomis Todd

23:20

before. She was beautiful, a

23:23

professionally trained musician.

23:25

Good public speaker, a very good

23:28

dancer. And she immediately decided that

23:31

the really cool family in town was

23:33

the Dickinsons. And she set out

23:35

to seduce the family. And she seduced

23:37

all of them. She

23:39

probably was utterly delightful. She

23:41

did captivate Austin. The two sisters,

23:44

Lavinia and Emily, invite Mabel Todd

23:46

in 1882 to come and play

23:48

the piano and sing for them.

23:51

Emily Dickinson never comes downstairs.

23:54

She remains upstairs with the

23:56

door ajar. Mabel

23:58

Loomis Todd was in intrigued by

24:01

the fact that Austin had this sister.

24:03

From the moment that

24:06

Mabel Todd arrives in

24:08

Amherst, she tells her

24:10

correspondence about

24:12

this extraordinary woman

24:15

in white who, according to Mabel,

24:17

is known as the

24:19

myth. You know, Mabel never saw

24:21

her, except in death. Mabel

24:23

was Todd because she had a dramatic

24:25

flair. I have a feeling that she

24:28

kind of overdid it when

24:30

she described how much of a

24:32

recluse Emily was. Emily may have

24:34

been reclusive to Mrs. Todd, but

24:37

not to her very close

24:39

friends. The other thing that was

24:41

going on during those months in

24:44

the homestead is that Mabel and

24:46

Austin were using it for their

24:48

romantic trysts. While

24:51

Emily Dickinson was upstairs, Mabel was

24:53

making love with Emily Dickinson's brother

24:55

on the sofa. Emily

24:57

in Lavinia and Margaret Maher

24:59

are all there when they're

25:02

having their three-hour trysts

25:04

in the homestead library. Susan

25:07

Gilbert Dickinson, Austin's wife, was

25:09

not very happy about this.

25:12

Here was Sue right next door. Susan

25:14

had been Emily's closest friend

25:16

as they grew up. It

25:20

might be lonelier without the loneliness. I'm

25:22

so accustomed to my fate. Perhaps

25:25

the other, peace, would

25:27

interrupt the dark and

25:30

crowd the little room too scant

25:32

by cubits to contain the sacrament

25:34

of him. I

25:36

am not used to hope. I

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might intrude upon its sweet parade,

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blaspheme the place, ordained

25:43

to suffering. It

25:45

might be easier to fail with

25:47

land in sight than

25:49

gain my blue peninsula to

25:52

perish of delight. Because

25:58

I could not stop for... death, he

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kindly stopped for me. The

26:05

carriage hurled but just ourselves and

26:08

immortality. At

26:23

the end of her life

26:25

in May of 1886, her

26:27

last letter simply read,

26:30

Little Cousins Called

26:32

Back Emily. She

26:35

wanted the funeral to come out the back door. She

26:38

wanted Irish gardeners and laborers to

26:40

be the pallbearers to carry her

26:42

casket around the grounds

26:44

and through the barn through

26:46

the fields. Everybody was shocked.

26:49

Mabel Loomis-Tide came to the funeral and she says, carry

26:52

through the field by Irishmen.

26:56

After her death, LaVenia found

26:58

in Emily Dickinson's bedroom 40

27:02

carefully arranged

27:04

booklets of

27:06

poems ready for publication.

27:10

LaVenia took the poems to

27:12

her sister-in-law Susan and said,

27:14

we need to get these

27:16

published. When Susan dawdled at

27:18

the task, LaVenia retrieved that

27:20

batch of about 500 poems

27:23

and gave them to Mabel

27:25

Tide. She went from wife

27:28

of Austin to lover of Austin

27:30

asking for help with the poems.

27:33

Mabel Loomis-Tide became

27:35

with Thomas Wentworth Higginson,

27:37

co-editor of Emily's poems

27:40

that were published

27:42

in the early 1890s. They thought there

27:46

were many poems that were incomprehensible

27:49

and that maybe if we cleaned them up

27:51

a little bit for punctuation because she Obviously

27:53

was out of control. He Changed

27:55

words so that the rhymes were

27:57

more exact, got rid of it.

28:00

Oh, stances. the early volumes of

28:02

poetry presented a kind of nature

28:05

poet glorious pounds, but people were

28:07

trying to turn her into a

28:10

poet of the eighteen nineties. The

28:12

Wilder Palms were put aside, so

28:14

to speak To. Erotic strengths

28:16

as his consciousness to the

28:18

tears She was writing Love

28:21

Pounds to at least three

28:23

people and possibly this minister,

28:25

possibly this judge and possibly

28:27

your sister in law. That

28:29

mr then just a theory.

28:31

Strong cocktail. Plan on Earth,

28:33

Are we supposed? To deal with. The

28:37

first three volumes were suitably

28:39

successful. Their concerns poetry was

28:41

immediately recognized and our plans

28:43

in place to burn out

28:45

more Palms and then Austin

28:47

dies. He. Leaves a

28:49

plot of land to Maple

28:52

Todd and Lavinia is serious.

28:54

She does not want a

28:57

public gift from her down

28:59

brother to his. Mistress.

29:02

The. To collections of manuscripts for

29:05

split. The Collector

29:07

many skeptics that says in Huntington

29:09

Dickinson held and the question that

29:11

label him aside held pass each

29:13

woman's daughter who continued the seafood.

29:15

You know why first his mistress

29:17

into the twentieth century. One.

29:19

Body of Palms is needed

29:21

to Amherst College, Harvard purchases

29:24

the other Body of Palms

29:26

to historically all male institutions

29:28

for Emily Dickinson can never

29:31

have gone to college. In

29:35

Nineteen Sixty Five, Dickinsons

29:37

reappearance was a literary

29:40

bombshell to the very

29:42

first time all of

29:44

her poems became available.

29:46

This Nineteen Fifty Five

29:48

magician went back to

29:50

the manuscripts. Adrienne

29:53

Rich. Nineteen Eighty. Just. I'll

29:55

never forget the shock of

29:58

openings A. The

30:00

issue for point is in. Which

30:02

the dashes. Had been restored,

30:04

the dashes and the capitalization

30:07

said been restored and getting

30:09

a sense of a whole

30:12

new reading of this poetry.

30:14

a whole nervous, much more

30:17

jagged, much more. Personal.

30:19

Much more original. Much. More

30:22

unsustainable than I had ever thought

30:24

to be. Going

30:27

up the back stairs as I

30:29

did every single day in that

30:31

house for eleven years. And

30:34

thinking. For a

30:36

certain time, this

30:38

exquisite mind lived

30:40

here. Living

30:42

a modest the hidden mice

30:44

happening to be at home

30:47

to help her father the

30:49

how could see make a

30:51

life for herself. She

30:54

brilliantly did it. Producing.

30:56

These start ideas that

30:59

resonate and mrs so

31:01

much more for human.

31:16

Emily Dickinson Hidden Kitchen was

31:18

produced Advocates and Sisters in collaboration

31:20

with Nathan Dalton and Brandy Him.

31:22

Special thanks to the National

31:24

Endowment for the Humanities and

31:26

the National. Endowment for the Arts

31:28

Arts or. Thank. You

31:31

Christopher Fancy author of Emily Dickinson

31:33

and The Problem Of Others. A

31:36

summary made as muse as

31:38

servants. Changed Emily Dickinson Slice on

31:41

Language Gene the Color Match Author

31:43

of Emily Dickinson and the Image

31:45

of Home. And poet

31:47

Brenda Hellman. a pocket only

31:50

Dickinson Very sweet little volume

31:52

smoking. Thanks

31:54

to a Lane Hardman for getting in touch.

31:56

With the kitchen sisters the see I drifted his

31:59

story. Had a librarian

32:01

at Houghton Library, Harvard University, and

32:03

Emily Dickinson Museum and am first

32:05

you can go and visit the

32:07

Homestead. And the evergreen. Your

32:10

heard readings are: Thornton Wilder, Julie

32:12

Harris, Jane Alexander and Patti Smith.

32:15

Adrienne Rich was recorded in Nineteen

32:17

Eighty Eight as part of the

32:19

excellent Pbs series. Voice Isn't isn't

32:21

supported by the any A H

32:24

The Kitchen Sisters present as part

32:26

of Radio Tokyo A selective have

32:28

some of the most remarkable, beautifully

32:31

conceived and produced shows out there

32:33

and for listening.