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In 1864… Several of Emily’s poems were published in Drum Beat to raise money for wounded Union soldiers during the Civil War and Another was published that year in the Brooklyn Daily Union Emily made a trip to Boston… In 1865, which would be her last venture from Amherst She rarely even left “The Homestead” She became known as the Myth because she was rarely seen Also The Lady in White because she was always wearing white when she was seen As early as 1867, she began to talk to her visitors from behind closed doors Despite her seclusion… Emily was socially active and expressive through her letters and poems Though she would leave when visitors came, she would write them poems or give them small gifts However, she met Higginson in her home in 1870 In 1874… Emily’s father suffered a stroke and died—she only opened her door a crack for the funeral, and did not attend memorial service A year later, her mother suffered a stroke, and was left in bad physical and mental state Around this time, Emily stopped going out in public, but still had visitors and wrote to close friends In the 1878… Helen Hunt Jackson convinced Emily to publish “Success is counted sweetest” anonymously in A Masque of Poets This was the last poem published in her lifetime In the summer of 1884… Emily fainted while baking, which led to weeks of ill health On November 30, 1885, her brother cancelled a trip to Boston because she was confined to bed and worried him She wrote a burst of letters the following spring, including one thought to be her last to her cousins, “Little Cousins, Called Back. Emily” On May 15, 1886… Emily died at the age of 55 of Bright’s Disease Her coffin was carried through daffodils, and Higginson read “No Coward Soul is Mine” by Emily Bronte, Emily’s favorite poem She was buried at West Cemetery on Triangle Street in Amherst Lavinia promised… That she would burn Emily’s correspondence after her death No instructions were left regarding the forty notebooks and loose sh