88Leyda, vol. 2, 236.
89L476c.
90F930.
91F1267.
92F1345.
93L476c.
94L476; L486.
95L476b.
96Helen Hunt Jackson Diary, October 13, 1876, Helen Hunt Jackson Collection, Tutt Library Special Collections and Archives, Colorado College.
97Leyda, vol. 2, 260.
98Ibid., 261.
99L476c
100L573b.
101L477.
102Stern and Shealy, 389.
103F112; The version of the poem included here is the way it appeared in A Masque of Poets. In seeking to standardize the poem, Niles eliminated dashes, altered a line break, and switched capital letters to lowercase, among other edits. A Masque of Poets, including Guy Vernon, a Novelette in Verse (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878), 174.
104Leyda, vol. 2, 260.
105L573c.
106Stern and Shealy, 390.
TEN: CALLED BACK
1L665.
2L735.
3L522.
4Jay Leyda, The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson, vol. 2 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960), 448.
5F428.
6Lyndall Gordon, Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds (New York: Viking, 2010), 135.
7Habegger, 608.
8Leyda, vol. 2, 320.
9Martha Dickinson Bianchi, Emily Dickinson: Face to Face (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932), 66–67.
10L549, L493.
11L542.
12Habegger, 572.
13L830, L489.
14L536.
15L738.
16L733.
17L1040.
18Ibid.
19L773; L1039.
20L765.
21L827.
22L785.
23L792.
24L779.
25Leyda, vol. 2, 384.
26L785.
27L521.
28L788.
29Martha Dickinson Bianchi, The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924), 70.
30L790.
31L559.
32L562.
33Ibid.
34L790.
35L780.
36L752.
37L790.
38L750.
39F1691.
40Leyda, vol. 2, 353.
41Ibid., 354.
42Ibid., 357.
43Ibid., 361.
44Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008), 245.
45Leyda, vol. 2, 377.
46Ibid., 405.
47Ibid., 433, 445.
48Ibid., 438.
49L858.
50Leyda, vol. 2, 336.
51L749.
52F1489.
53L814.
54F895.
55L813.
56L813b.
57L601a.
58F1488.
59Kate Phillips, Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 228.
60Ibid., 229.
61Ibid., 234.
62Ibid., 252.
63Habegger, 618.
64Ibid., 612.
65Leyda, vol. 2, 406.
66L873.
67Leyda, vol. 2, 411.
68Ibid.
69L873.
70L868.
71L874.
72L890.
73L967.
74L968.
75L967.
76L907.
77Leyda, vol.2, 425.
78L939.
79L937a.
80Ibid.
81Phillips, 253.
82Valerie Sherer Mathes, The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879–1885 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015), 216.
83L976a.
84Ibid.
85Phillips, 272.
86Ibid., 233.
87L1015.
88L1043.
89Leyda, vol. 2, 466.
90L1034.
91L267.
92F1389; F1453; F1440; F1152; F1512.
93L619.
94Amherst Record, May 12, 1886.
95Amherst Record, May 19, 1886.
96Leyda, vol. 2, 470.
97L1046.
98Leyda, vol. 2, 471.
99Bianchi, Emily Dickinson, 158–59; Conversation with Alfred Venne, Planetarium Educator, Bassett Planetarium, Amherst College, September 15, 2017, and Alfred Venne, email to the author, September 18, 2017.
100L332.
101F372.
102Emily Dickinson’s Death and Funeral File, Jones Library Special Collections, Amherst, Massachusetts.
103L1024.
104L1030; Letters, 896.
105Bianchi, Emily Dickinson, 61.
106Leyda, vol. 2, 472–73.
107Leyda, vol. 2, 474–75.
108Paul Crumbley, “Emily Dickinson’s Funeral and the Paradox of Literary Fame,” The Emily Dickinson Journal 26, no. 2 (2017), 55.
109L342a.
110L342b.
111F466.
112A week after Dickinson’s death, Vinnie discovered her sister’s poems. While she was well aware that Emily wrote poetry, she had no idea how much. Vinnie first approached Sue with editing the work, but Sue took more time to consider the project than Vinnie wanted. She next asked Mabel Loomis Todd if she would do the work. Mabel transcribed hundreds of poems, while the Dickinson family contacted Higginson. Roberts Brothers published Poems by Emily Dickinson, coedited by Todd and Higginson, in 1890 in time for Christmas sales. The book sold out and immediately went into multiple printings. For further information on the disposition of the poems, see R. W. Franklin, “Introduction,” in The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Variorum Edition (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998), 1–43.
113May 19, 1886, Snell Family Meteorological Journal, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections.
INDEX
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Alcott, (Abigail) May, 187
Alcott, Bronson, 177, 208
Alcott, Louisa May, 141, 202–3, 208
Amherst Academy, 16, 21, 27, 28, 29
Forest Leaves (literary journal), 19, 209
Arthur, Chester A., 224
Banfield, Ann Fiske, 175–76
Bangs’s Boarding House, Mrs. (Deborah Bigelow), 153
Beecher, Henry Ward, 107
Bowles, Samuel, 69, 106–9, 183, 187, 191, 202, 205n
and Civil War, 114, 120–21
death of, 213–14
and Emily’s poems, 106, 108, 112, 162, 164
and Susan, 108, 162, 197, 208
Brontë, Emily, 231, 233
Brown, John, 139
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 185, 186
Browning, Robert, 114
Burnside, Ambrose, 92n, 113, 114, 127
Carlo (dog), 55, 56, 124, 132, 143, 148, 168, 170, 176, 230
Circle of Five, 13
Civil War, 92–95, 107, 116–22, 139–40, 146
Burnside Expedition, 92, 112, 113, 114
end of, 159–60
Fort Sumter, 94, 127–28
Gettysburg Address, 156
Harpers Ferry, 139
Secret Six, 139
Sherman’s March to the Sea, 157
substitutes paid to fight in, 139n
Clark, William, 92, 117–18, 128, 169
Colton, Rev. Aaron, 4, 5, 23
Conkey, Ithamar, 93
Currier, Elizabeth Dickinson, 8–9n, 10
Cutler, William, 51–52, 173
Davis, Jefferson, 116
Dickinson, William (Austin) (brother), 7–9, 51, 55, 57, 63, 65, 70, 103, 142, 208, 213
and Civil War, 119–20, 139n
and Emily’s illness and death, 227, 229, 230, 231, 235
a
nd Emily’s poems, 59, 86
and Evergreens, 76, 106, 173, 211
and Gib’s illness and death, 224–25
and his father’s death, 190–91, 194, 197
and his mother’s illness, 194
law practice of, 74
and Mabel Todd, 219–20, 224, 225
marriage to Susan, 73–74, 106, 107, 220; see also Dickinson, Susan Gilbert
Dickinson, Edward (father), 11–12, 122, 127–28, 129, 164, 169, 173, 179
death of, 190–94, 196, 197, 211–12
and family, 7, 15, 23–24, 30, 32, 33, 34, 41, 50–51, 70, 76, 96n, 142, 150, 160, 197–98
health issues of, 188–89
law practice of, 74, 190, 192
and politics, 8, 64–65, 73, 83–85, 189–90
and religion, 33, 34, 65, 230
Dickinson, Emily:
abstract ideas of, 57–59, 73, 79, 86, 87, 103, 130, 138, 148, 198, 208
anonymity preferred by, 56, 68, 143, 144n, 202, 205, 207, 210
and Civil War, 94–95, 107, 117, 119–22
composition of “Safe in their Alabaster Chambers,” 95, 102, 105–6, 109–11, 112–15
decisions made by, 28, 39, 42–49, 50–51, 117
desire to be distinguished, 72–73, 77, 80, 86, 87, 89, 91, 115, 117, 136, 145
dreams of, 26–27, 39, 67–68
early development of, 2–25
eccentricity of form in work of, 137, 138
eyesight of, 136, 141–43, 145, 147, 148–51, 153, 154–55, 157, 158–59, 160
fascicles of, 89–91, 95, 102, 124, 129, 152, 221, 229
“final poem” of, 231
first poem published, 52–56, 65–67, 68–69, 70, 78, 168n, 214
health of, 29, 149–50
and her father’s death, 191–94, 196, 211–12
and her mother’s illness and death, 76, 194, 196, 215–16
Higginson’s visits with, 164–68, 170–80, 184–85, 202, 234
and household chores, 61–63, 76, 113n, 142, 161, 169
illness and death of, 227, 228–35
and imagery, 18, 57, 102, 103, 105, 113
imaginary scenes constructed by, 56–59, 72, 88, 91, 151–52, 170–71
intellectual intensity of, 70, 131, 152, 171, 179
Jackson’s visit; Emily urged to publish, 182, 185–88, 199, 202–10
and Judge Lord, 193, 199, 216–19, 226–27, 233
letter-writing ritual of, 6–7, 8, 56, 69–70, 76–77, 78, 101, 230
Master letters of, 87–88, 99–101, 230
and music, 15–16
nature as inspiration to, 85, 87, 138, 180, 185, 216, 221, 222, 223
poems sent to Higginson, 129–32, 154
poems submitted for publication, 69, 109, 143–46, 162, 164, 209–10, 221–23, 235
readers for her work, 106, 123–25, 128, 130, 145, 171
and religion, 2–5, 29, 33–35, 39, 43–49, 65n, 78, 105, 123, 232
schooling of, 16–18, 27, 33, 35–38
sense of self, 168, 169, 170
social obligations of, 61–63, 79
solitude preferred by, 35, 79–81, 84, 153, 170, 172, 182–84, 205, 211, 232, 233
and Susan, see Dickinson, Susan Gilbert; Gilbert, Susan
urged toward publication, 168, 185–88, 199, 202–10, 221, 223, 228
in Washington, DC, 82, 84
writing of, 17, 55–56, 59, 70, 79, 85–91, 99, 101, 122–23, 150–53, 161, 169–70, 179, 206–7, 211–13, 221, 225, 229–30
Dickinson, Emily Norcross (mother), 230
death of, 215–16
and family, 7, 23–24, 30, 32, 33, 34, 169
health of, 76, 194, 196, 197, 211, 215
personal traits of, 9–10
Dickinson, Lavinia (Vinnie) (sister), 57, 70, 76, 77, 78, 215, 219, 220
early years of, 11, 12–13, 15, 17, 21, 24, 50, 61
and Emily’s eyesight, 143, 154, 157, 159
and Emily’s illness and death, 227, 229, 231, 233, 235
and Emily’s poems, 59, 124
and father’s death, 191, 195–96
loyalty of, 176, 211, 230
schooling of, 21, 61, 73
social life of, 12, 53, 65, 195
Dickinson, Lucretia (grandmother), 7, 34
Dickinson, Martha (Mattie) (niece), 169, 191, 197, 204, 209, 231
Dickinson, Mary (aunt), 30
Dickinson, Edward (Ned) (nephew), 95–96, 98, 113, 132, 197, 204, 213, 219, 220, 231
Dickinson, Samuel (grandfather), 7, 30, 34
Dickinson, Susan Gilbert (Austin’s wife):
and Austin, 59, 73–74, 97–98, 106, 107, 197, 208, 220, 224
early years of, see Gilbert, Susan
and Emily’s death, 232, 235
Emily’s relationship with, 75–76, 95–99, 112–13, 128, 150, 153, 220, 225–26, 232
and Emily’s poems, 98–99, 109–11, 113, 130, 131, 136, 162, 164, 220, 226
and Gib, 197, 204, 224–26
and her father-in-law, 197–98
and literature, 104–5, 108, 113
and Mabel Todd, 219–20, 224
and Mattie, 169
and Ned, 95–96, 113, 132, 204, 213
Dickinson, Thomas Gilbert (Gib) (nephew), 197, 198, 204, 224–26, 230, 231
Eliot, George (Mrs. Lewes), 186, 189, 193
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 102–5, 127, 167, 210
“Brahma,” 104
“The Poet,” 102–3
Evans, Mary Ann (George Eliot; Mrs. Lewes), 186, 189, 193
Fields, James T., 146
First lines
Adrift! A little boat adrift!, 85
After great pain, a formal feeling comes –, 129
A little bread, a crust – a crumb, 99
A little Madness in the Spring, 206
A narrow fellow in the grass, 162–64
A nearness to Tremendousness –, 147
A Route of Evanescence, 221–22, 223
A wounded Deer – leaps highest –, 99
Because I could not stop for Death –, 130
Before I got my eye put out, 155
Blazing in gold, and quenching in purple, 144
Contained in this short Life, 178
Distrustful of the Gentian –, 90
Dont put up my Thread & Needle –, 152–53
“Faith” is a fine invention 108n
Flowers – well, if anybody, 144
Frequently the woods are pink –, 90
From Blank to Blank –, 151
Further in Summer than the Birds –, 222–23
Go thy great way!, 227
“Hope” is the thing with feathers –, 129
I can wade Grief –, 129
I counted till they danced so, 105
I dreaded that first Robin, so, 125
I dwell in Possibility –, 234
I have a Bird in spring, 98
I’ll tell you how the Sun rose –, 130
I’m Nobody! Who are you?, 123
I’m “wife” – I’ve finished that –, 123
I taste a liquor never brewed –, 109, 129
It dont sound so terrible – quite as it did –, 119–20
It is easy to work when the soul is at play –, 122–23
Jesus! thy Crucifix, 108n
“Nature” is what we see –, 180
Nobody knows this little rose, 109
One of the ones that Midas touched, 223
One sister have I in the house –, 86–87
Our own Possessions though our own –, 206
Pass to thy Rendezvous of Light, 226
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers, 95n, 102, 109–11, 113–15, 130, 131, 223
Should you but fail – at Sea –, 108n
“Sic transit gloria mundi,” 53–56, 65–67, 68–69, 109, 168n, 229
Some – keep the Sabbath – going to church –, 130, 144, 145
Speech – is a prank of Parliament –, 108n
Springs – shake
the Sills –, 111
Success is counted sweetest 144, 145, 209–10
The Gentian weaves her fringes, 87, 89
The Heart is the Capital of the Mind –, 206
The most pathetic thing I do, 207
The nearest Dream recedes – unrealized –, 130
The Poets light but Lamps –, 206
There is no Frigate like a Book, 206
There’s a certain Slant of light, 129
These are the days when birds come back, 144
The Soul selects her own Society –, 129–30, 184
Through the strait pass of suffering –, 108n
Title divine – is mine!, 108n
Two swimmers wrestled on the spar –, 108n
Volcanoes be in Sicily, 219
We grow accustomed to the Dark –, 212
We play at Paste –, 130
Wild nights – Wild nights!, 129
Would you like summer? Taste our’s, 108n
Fiske, Deborah, 9, 20, 21
Fiske, Fidelia, 40, 41, 49, 60
Fiske, Helen, 19–21, 24, 36, 38, 57, 61, 63–64, 81
see also Hunt, Helen; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Ford, Emily Fowler, 87, 186
Forten, Charlotte, 146
Fowler, Emily, 5, 13, 17, 19, 75
see also Ford, Emily Fowler
Fowler, Harriet, 21–22
Gilbert, Mattie, 51, 75, 98, 160
Gilbert, Susan, 51–52, 57, 59, 65
see also Dickinson, Susan Gilbert
Gould, George, 52, 54–55, 57
Harte, Bret, 106
Higginson, Mary, 147, 164, 166, 171, 173, 177, 179
Higginson, Stephen II, 165–66
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth:
and Civil War, 139–40, 142, 172
correspondence with Emily, 133–39, 141, 147, 154, 157, 161, 164, 171, 182, 184, 187, 194, 221
and Emily’s illness and death, 229, 231, 233–34, 235
and Emily’s poetry, 129–32, 134, 137–38, 145–46, 148, 162, 163, 177–78, 184, 207, 222, 235
health of, 141, 142, 146–47
and Jackson, 154, 166–68, 176, 181, 182, 185, 186, 205, 207–8, 228
“Letter to a Young Contributor,” 125–27, 128, 129, 130
Malbone; An Oldport Romance, 172
and nature, 126, 139, 161, 176, 180
Out-Door Papers, 176
visits with Emily, 161–62, 164–66, 168, 170–80, 184–85, 202, 234
and women’s rights, 146, 161
“Wentworth,” 165
Hitchcock, Edward, 14, 32, 34, 59
Hitchcock, Jane, 13, 17
Hitchcock, Orra, 32–33
Holland, Elizabeth, 78, 196–97
Holland, Josiah, 69, 77–79, 80–81, 89, 106n, 121, 177, 214
Holland, Sophia, 13, 21, 22–23, 149
Howe, Julia Ward:
“Battle Hymn of the Republic,” 108
Passion Flowers, 103
Howells, William Dean, 187
Howland, Esther, 54
Howland, William, 53–54, 65, 67, 68–69, 195n
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