Kate Scott Turner
Catherine Mary Scott Turner was an American poet and a friend of poet Emily Dickinson. She was also known as Kate Anthon.
Overview
Catherine Mary Scott was the daughter of Henry Scott of Cooperstown, New York. She attended the Utica Female Seminary, where in 1848 she met Susan Gilbert, who married Emily Dickinson's brother Austin Dickinson. The women remained friends until Susan's death in 1913.In 1855, she married Campbell Ladd Turner, who died in 1857 of tuberculosis. Turner was acquainted with Emily Dickinson through Susan, and they remained so until the mid-1860s. Turner married for a second time in 1866 to John Hone Anthon, who died eight years later. She died in 1917 in England, having lived most of her life outside of the United States.