Charyn’s book gives a checkered history of the many interpretations of Dickinson, at times attempting to connect them to her actual biography. He starts to trace key disputes in Emily Dickinson ...

I started to read Dickinson’s biography, and in the appendix ... It was still surprising to me to read that Emily Dickinson had three pictures of women writers on her wall.

in a new biography of Dickinson, Lives Like Loaded Guns. "It would have seemed natural to everyone that Susan, who had been Emily Dickinson's support as a poet and keenest reader, should be the ...

Emily Dickinson is one of America’s most important poets. Her work — nearly 2,000 poems, discovered after her death in 1885 — is unlike anything written during the 19th century. It had a ...

Find out more about what this space is all about here. These are pages from Emily Dickinson’s herbarium, or homemade book of pressed plant specimens. Assembled when Dickinson was a 14-year-old ...

The series, created by playwright Alena Smith, takes place in and around the Dickinson family home in Amherst in the middle of the 19th century. Emily is a teenager, chafing under Edward’s ...

Readers always seem to want to get closer to Emily Dickinson, the godmother of American poetry. Paging through her poems feels like burrowing nose-deep in her 19th century backyard — where "the ...

There you have the reasoning underlying Brenda Wineapple's fascinating new book, White Heat, which explores the relationship between Emily ... of her biography to mediate on Dickinson: That ...