Hannah Whitman HeydeThe correspondence of Hannah Whitman Heyde (1823 1908), younger sister of poet Walt Whitman, provides a rare glimpse into the life of a nineteenth century woman. Married to well known Vermont landscape artist Charles Louis Heyde (1820 1892), Hannah documented in letters to her mother, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman (1795 1873), and other family members, her lived experience of ongoing physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her husband. Hannah has