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Petrino, Elizabeth A., Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries: Women’s Verse in America (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1998)
Phillips, Kate, Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003)
Pollak, Vivian R., ‘American Women Poets Reading Dickinson: The Example of Helen Hunt Jackson’ in Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbüchle and Cristanne Miller (eds), The Emily Dickinson Handbook (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998), 323-41
———(ed.), A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson (NY: OUP, 2004). Includes ‘A Brief Biography’ by Vivian Pollak and Marianne Noble
Porter, Roy, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present (London: Harper, 1997)
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Raine, Craig, ‘Ordinary, Sacred Things’ and subsequent debate on Dickinson and religion in the letters column of TLS (24 Nov 2006-Jan 2007)
Rector, Liam, ‘Bidart’s The Sacrifice’ in On Frank Bidart: Fastening the Voice to the Page, ed. Liam Rector and Tree Swenson (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), 130-1. Suggestive comments on the ‘connective tissue’ of reinvented punctuation.
Richardson, Robert D., Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Chapel Hill: University of California Press, 1995)
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Sewall, Richard Benson, The Life of Emily Dickinson, 2 vols (NY: Farrar, Giroux, 1974; London: Faber, 1974; repr. Harvard University Press, 1994). Appendix II to the first volume prints a few of a vast Yale collection of documents relevant to the ‘War between the Houses’. In section 4 of Appendix II, Sewall offers a ‘synthesis’ of three typescripts of Mabel Todd’s reminiscences in the Yale archive, under the title of one of them, ‘Scurrilous but True’. Scurrilous they are, but not true. Fascinating for the distortions of Todd’s slander as it thickened over many decades. Section 5 of Appendix II is notes taken by Millicent Todd Bingham during an interview with her father in September-October 1933, after her mother’s death, when Millicent was taking on her mother’s campaign. Section 6 is an extract from only one of Millicent’s massive collection of TS reminiscences at Yale.
———, The Lyman Letters: New Light on Emily Dickinson and her Family (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1965). Copy in Library of Congress
———(ed.), Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1963)
———and Martin Wand, ‘“Eyes Be Blind, Heart Be Still”: A New Perspective on Emily Dickinson’s Eye Problem’, New England Quarterly, 52/3 (Sept 1979), 400-6
Seymour, Miranda, ‘Emily’s Tryst’, New York Times (24 Aug 2008). Review of Wineapple, White Heat
Showalter, Elaine, lecture on American women writers. Oxford (11 May 2006)
———, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (London: Virago, 2009)
———, The Female Malady (London: Virago, 1985)
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———A User’s Guide to Emily Dickinson (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010)
———with Cristanne Miller and Suzanne Juhasz, Comic Power in Emily Dickinson (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993)
———and Ellen Louise Hart (eds), Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntingdon Dickinson. In Primary Sources
———and Mary Loeffelholz (eds), A Companion to Emily Dickinson (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), including essays by the editors
The Smith College Monthly (Nov 1941). Special Dickinson issue
Spender, Dale, Man Made Language (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985)
St Armand, Barton Levi, ‘Keeper of the Keys: Mary Hampson, the Evergreens, and the Art Within’ in Jerome Liebling