Sue Dickinson, who died at age 82 in 1913. Emily's poem, One Sister have I in our house, includes the stanza, "I spilt the dew / But took the morn / I chose this single star / From out the wide ...

On the show, “Ivy” was featured in the episode in which Emily and Sue have a sex scene. But wait, there’s more! Evermore came out at midnight on December 10 — Dickinson’s birthday.

In a plotline borrowed from real life, Sue is engaged to Emily’s brother Austin (Adrian Enscoe). In a plotline added by the show – though nevertheless suggested by Dickinson scholars – Emily ...