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Title Dickinson in her own time : a biographical chronicle of her life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates / edited by Jane Donahue Eberwein, Stephanie Farrar, Cristanne Miller.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Writers in their own time
Writers in their own time (University of Iowa Press)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "Even before the first books of her poems were published in the 1890s, friends, neighbors, and even apparently strangers knew Emily Dickinson was a writer of remarkable verses. Featuring both well-known documents and material printed or collected here for the first time, this book offers a broad range of writings that convey impressions of Dickinson in her own time and for the first decades following the publication of her poems. It all begins with her school days and continues to the centennial of her birth in 1930. In addition, promotional items, reviews, and correspondence relating to early publications are included, as well as some later documents that reveal the changing assessments of Dickinson's poetry in response to evolving critical standards. These documents provide evidence that counters many popular conceptions of her life and reception, such as the belief that the writer best known for poems focused on loss, death, and immortality was herself a morose soul. In fact, those who knew her found her humorous, playful, and interested in other people. Dickinson maintained literary and personal correspondence with major representatives of the national literary scene, developing a reputation as a remarkable writer even as she maintained extreme levels of privacy. Evidence compiled here also demonstrates that she herself made considerable provision for the survival of her poems and laid the groundwork for their eventual publication. Dickinson in Her Own Time reveals the poet as her contemporaries knew her, before her legend took hold."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chronology of Emily Dickinson's Life; Part 1. A Life Enshrouded in "fiery mist"; The Young Dickinson; Daniel T. Fiske to Mabel Loomis Todd, 6 February 1894; Amelia D. Jones Stearns, Reminiscence of Mount Holyoke days, 1899; Emily L. Norcross to Hannah Porter from Mount Holyoke, 11 January 1848; Jeanie Ashley Bates Greenough, Reminiscence, n.d.; Austin Dickinson to Joseph Lyman, 20 December 1848(?) (excerpt); Dickinson as Poet; Susan and Emily Dickinson, Exchange on "Safe in their AlabasterChambers," 1861-62
Joseph Lyman and Emily Dickinson, n.d.Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Emily Dickinson, 11 May 1869; Thomas Wentworth Higginson on first visit to Dickinson, 16-17 August 1870; Lydia B. Torrey to Emily F. Ford, 16 November 1872; Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Anna and Louisa Higginson, 9 December 1873 (excerpt); Domestic Seclusion and Emerging Reputation; Helen Hunt Jackson, Letters to Emily Dickinson and Material Regarding A Masque of Poets, 1876-79; "Saxe Holm" Speculations, July-August 1878; Catherine Scott Anthon to Susan Dickinson, n.d.
Mabel Loomis Todd, Journal entries on the "Myth" of Amherst, 1882Thomas Niles, Correspondence with Emily Dickinson, 1882-83; Lavinia Dickinson, Poem for Emily, 1882; Helen Hunt Jackson to Emily Dickinson, 1884-85; Death Notices; Northampton Daily Herald, 17 May 1886; Obituary by Susan Dickinson, Springfield Republican, 18 May 1886; Part 2. The Life of the Poems; Publication of, Correspondence Regarding, and Reception of Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890) and Poems: Second Series (1891); Arlo Bates, Report to Thomas Niles of Roberts Brothers, c. June 1890
Austin Dickinson to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 10 October 1890Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "Preface" to Poems, 1890; Mabel Loomis Todd, "Bright Bits from Bright Books," Home Magazine, 3 November 1890; E. Winchester Donald to Mabel Loomis Todd, 8-9 December 1890; Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Correspondence with Mabel Loomis Todd, 1890; Susan Dickinson to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, December 1890; John White Chadwick, "Poems by Emily Dickinson" (review), Christian Register, 18 December 1890; William Dean Howells, "Editor's Study" (review), Harper's New Monthly Magazine, January 1891
Andrew Lang, "The Newest Poet" (review), Daily News (London), 2 January 1891Thomas Niles to Mabel Loomis Todd, 17 February 1891; Lavinia Dickinson to Thomas Niles, 24 February 1891; Susan and William Austin Dickinson, Correspondence with William Hayes Ward, February and March 1891; S. J. Barrows to Mabel Loomis Todd, 1891; Charles E. L. Wingate, "Boston Letter," The Critic, 9 May 1891 (excerpt); Mabel Loomis Todd to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 25 July 1891; Samuel G. Ward to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 11 October 1891; Mabel Loomis Todd, Journal entry, Amherst, 18 October 1891 (excerpt)
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Subject Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Public opinion.
Public opinion.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Appreciation.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Friends and associates.
Friends and associates.
Women poets, American -- Biography.
Women poets, American -- Biography.
Women poets, American.
Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Chronological Term 19th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States.
History.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Poets, American.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Women and literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Art appreciation.
Friendship.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History.
Biographies.
Added Author Eberwein, Jane Donahue, 1943- editor.
Farrar, Stephanie, 1980- editor.
Miller, Cristanne, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Dickinson in her own time 9781609383916 (DLC) 2015012976 (OCoLC)907660101
ISBN 9781609383923 (electronic book)
1609383923 (electronic book)
9781609383916
1609383915