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Writer Pamela Norris, who read a draft of the whole book, made detailed comments with her usual grace of mind. Everything she said was telling.

Finally I must thank Siamon Gordon for his hypothesis about the effect of Dickinson’s physician in formulating her way of life. Thanks is due even more for his readiness to discuss each chapter from start to finish. In many ways, this is his book as much as mine.

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Extracts reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Extracts reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition, Ralph W. Franklin, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Extracts reprinted by permission of the publishers from The Letters of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1958, 1986, The President and Fellows of Harvard College; 1914, 1924, 1935, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi; 1952 by Alfred Leete Hampson; 1960 by Mary L. Hampson.

Extensive quotations from biographical material (Series II) in the form of autobiographical notes and letters to Clara Carleton Pearl. Millicent Todd Bingham Papers. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

Quotations from Martha Dickinson Bianchi’s letters to Amy Angel Collier Montague, and Millicent Todd Bingham to Gilbert Montague. Montague-Collier Family Papers. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

Images and extensive quotations from materials in Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College, by permission of the Trustees of Amherst College.

INDEX

Adams, John (composer)

Adams, Miss (schoolteacher)

Agassiz, Louis

Alcott, Louisa May

American Literature

Amherst (Massachusetts)

religious revival in

Mabel Todd’s arrival in

Amherst Academy

Amherst College

Austin Dickinson as treasurer

Edward Dickinson as treasurer

Mattie Dickinson and

observatory

Todd collection donated to (1956)

Andrews, Caroline (Caro) Lovejoy

Andersen, Hans Christian, ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’

Anthony, Susan B. (women’s rights leader)

Antinomian Controversy (1637)

archival records

Atlantic Monthly

Austen, Jane and family legend

Balzac, Honoré de, Comédie humaine (1842-7)

Bartlett, Revd and Mary

Baskin, Lisa

Bates, Arlo

Beecher, Revd Henry Ward

Being John Malkovich (film, 1999)

Bell, Currer, see Brontë, Charlotte

The Belle of Amherst (William Luce play)

Benfey, Christopher

A Summer of Hummingbirds (2008)

Bennett, Revd John, Letters to a Young Lady (1789)

Bianchi, Captain Alexander

Bigelow, Dr

Bingham, Walter

death of (7 July 1952)

biography (the unseen space between the scenes)

ED’s keenness on

see also ED on ‘Existence’ in ‘I tie my Hat’

Blackmur, R. P.

Bliss, Mildred and Robert

Bloomsbury Group

Boston Conservatory of Music

Bostridge, Mark

Bowles, Mary

Bowles, Samuel

death of (1878)

Austin Dickinson and

ED and

candidate for ‘Master’

correspondence

naming of baby Bowles

poetry

Susan Dickinson and

Brittle Heaven (Vincent Yorke and Frederick Pohl play, 1935)

Brontë sisters

Anne Brontë, Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1847)

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre (1847)

Shirley (1849)

Villette (1853)

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights (1847)

Brown University (Providence, RI)

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Aurora Leigh (1857)

death of (1861)

Browning, Robert

Brown-Séquard, C. E.

Bruni, Carla

Buffam, Miss Vryling Wilder

Bumpus, Everett.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Byron, George