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Karlin, Daniel, ‘Recurring Woman’, London Review of Books (24 Aug 2000), 21-2. Questioning review of Franklin’s variorum edition

Kaufmann, Paola (trans. William Rowlandson), The Sister: A novel on the hidden world of Emily Dickinson (2003; Richmond, Surrey: Alma Books, 2006)

Kelley, Mary, Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America (NY: OUP, 1984)

Lang, Amy, Prophetic Women: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987)

Leyda, Jay, The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960)

Liebling, Jerome, The Dickinsons of Amherst (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2001). Photographs with essays by Christopher Benfey, Polly Longsworth and Barton Levi St Armand

Loeffelholz, Mary, From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004)

———and Martha Nell Smith (eds), A Companion to Emily Dickinson (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)

Loeschke, Maravene S., The Path Between: An Historical Novel of the Dickinson Family of Amherst (Columbia, MD: C. H. Fairfax, 1988)

Longsworth, Polly (ed.), Austin and Mabel. See Primary Sources

———The World of Emily Dickinson (NY: Norton, 1990, paperback 1997)

———‘The “Latitude of Home”: Life in the Homestead and the Evergreens’ in Liebling, above

———see Hirschhorn, above

MacMurray, Rose, Afternoons with Emily (NY: Little, Brown, 2007)

McNeil, Helen, Emily Dickinson (London, Virago, 1986; NY: Pantheon, 1986)

Malcolm, Janet, The Journalist and the Murderer (1990; London: Granta, 1997)

Martin, Wendy (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson (2002)

Matteson, John, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and her Father (NY: Norton, 2007)

Mendelson, Edward, The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life (NY: Pantheon, 2006). Chapter on Emily Brontë is suggestive of Dickinson’s affinities for her

Messmer, Marietta, ‘A vice for voices’: Reading Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001)

Miller, Cristanne, Emily Dickinson: A Poet’s Grammar (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987)

———, ‘The Sound of Shifting Paradigms, or Hearing Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century’ in Pollak (ed.), A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson, 201-34

———, ‘Dickinson’s Structured Rhythms’ in Smith and Loeffelholz (eds), A Companion to Emily Dickinson, 391-414.

———with Suzanne Juhasz and Martha Nell Smith, Comic Power in Emily Dickinson (University of Texas Press, 1993)

Mitchell, Domhnall, Measurements of Possibility: Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts (Amherst: Massachusetts University Press, 2005)

———and Maria Stuart (eds), International Reception of Emily Dickinson (London: Continuum, 2009)

Mizruchi, Susan L., Becoming Multicultural: Culture, Economy, and the Novel, 1860-1920 in Cambridge History of American Literature, ed. Sacvan Bercovitch, iii: Prose Writing, 1860-1920 (Cambridge: CUP, 2005)

———, The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009). Separate publication of the above

Moers, Ellen, Literary Women (London: The Women’s Press, 1978)

Morris, Leslie A., Foreword to Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium (above) has a succinct history of the Dickinson Papers and how they came to Harvard

Morse, Jonathan, ‘Bibliographical Essay’ in Pollak (ed.), A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson, 255-83

Murray, Aífe, ‘Miss Margaret’s Emily Dickinson’, Signs (spring 1999), vol. 24/3, 697-732

Oates, Joyce Carol, ‘The Woman in White’, New York Review of Books (25 Sept 2008). Review of Wineapple, White Heat

Orzeck, Martin and Robert Weisbuch (eds), Dickinson and Audience (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996)

Ostriker, Alicia Suskin, Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1986; London: The Women’s Press, 1986)

Paglia, Camille, ‘Amherst