Rare Photo Of Emily Dickinson Emerges, Only Second Known Photo Of Her In History And it shows the legendary poet with the woman long suspected to be her lesbian lover. An anonymous collector donated this photo to the Amherst College in Massachusetts in 2007. Researchers are now confident that the circa 1860 daguerreotype is in fact of Dickinson in her early 30s. That's Emily Dickinson On The Left, Her Close Friend/Possible Lover, Kate Scott Turner, On The Right
