Dogs Are Better Sticker

In 1850, Edward Dickinson gifted his daughter a dog. Carlo, as he was named, was a beloved companion to the poet for sixteen years. It is believed that Carlo was a Newfoundland, and that his name was inspired by Dickinson’s reading of the novel Jane Eyre that same autumn. In a letter of introduction to T. W. Higginson she wrote:

“You ask of my Companions. Hills – Sir – and the Sundown – and a Dog – large as myself, that my Father bought me – They are better than Beings – because they know – but do not tell–.” (L338)

It is surely no coincidence that Dickinson’s reclusiveness deepened after the death of her “shaggy ally” in 1866.

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