The poet Emily Dickinson was a later “love” interest to Thomas Westworth Higginson who was a member of the Secret Six that funded the Harper’s Ferry raid.
In fact, he was her original publishing mentor in her letter to him regarding his “Letter to a Young Contributor” which he’d published in the Atlantic Monthly, and in which she had responded with four of her poems.
She moved in lofty, if even sometimes dark circles, despite staying at home near constantly.
“My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -....”
A recent biographer believes Emily Dickinson was epileptic, at a time when epilepsy was considered a moral failing, especially in a female.