Lives Like Loaded Guns_ Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds - Lyndall Gordon [249]
Cable, Mrs Washington
Caesar, Julius
Carder, James
Caxton, William (first printer in England)
Century magazine
Channing, William Ellery
Charcot, Professor
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chekhov, Anton, Three Sisters (1901)
Chicago World’s Fair (1933)
Chickering, Joseph
Civil War, American
Clark, Philip
Cole, President (of Amherst College)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Cooke, Fidelia
Coolidge, President Calvin
Coonley, Lydia
Cutler, Harriet (née Gilbert)
Cutler, William
daguerreotype of ED
Dartmouth College
Darwin, Charles, The Origin of Species (1859)
de Caen, Walter
The Dell (Todd house in Amherst)
building of (1860)
Vinnie Dickinson’s visits to
Margaret Maher at
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson, Austin (brother of ED)
biographical/personal details
Amherst College treasurer
birth of (1829)
character of
childhood and education
Civil War and
death of (16 August 1895)
grim humour
Harvard Law School
health of
legal career
physical appearance of
sexuality
standing in Amherst
teaching post in Boston
temperament
voice of
will of (signed November 1887)
Samuel Bowles and
diaries of
Ned Dickinson’s health and
Susan Gilbert Dickinson and, see Dickinson, Susan (née Gilbert): Austin Dickinson and Vinnie Dickinson and
ED and
correspondence
ED’s health
ED’s poetry
Martha Gilbert and
royalty and contract issues and
David Todd and
Mabel Todd and, see Todd, Mabel Loomis: Austin Dickinson and
Dickinson, Edward (father of ED)
Amherst College treasurer
character of
death of (16 June 1874)
ED on
ED’s education and
ED’s health and
ED’s poetry and
emotional repression and
family debts and
The Homestead and
legal career
marriage to Emily Norcross
myth of as tyrannical
orphaned nieces of
paternal authority of
politics and
religion and
views on women
Dickinson, Elizabeth (Aunt Elizabeth)
Dickinson, Emily (ED) (biographical issues and themes)
ancestry and family history
biographical works on
Emily Dickinson’s Home: Letters of Edward Dickinson and his family (Millicent Todd, 1955)
Face to Face (Mattie Dickinson, 1932)
Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (Martha Dickinson Bianchi, 1924)
Life of Emily Dickinson (Richard B. Sewall, 1974)
see also Sewall, Richard B.
My Wars are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (Alfred Habegger, 2001)
This Was a Poet (George Whicher, 1938)
birth of (10 December 1830)
cameo brooch
centenary celebrations (1930)
character of
control and
fearlessness/boldness
grim humour
intellect
‘old-fashioned’ image
passion and
temperament
childhood of
clothes and
death of (15 May 1886)
Austin Dickinson’s adultery and
land transfer and (1885)
domestic life
The Homestead and
housework
gardening
double existence
education
fellow students
geology and
higher (at Mount Holyoke)
school/college teachers
schoolmates (at Amherst Academy)
fictional/dramatic representations of
health
in childhood/teenage years
Austin Dickinson’s adultery and
ED legend and
epilepsy
final decline (1885-6)
poetry and
poisons administered as medicine
removal from Mount Holyoke and
secrecy
treatments in Boston
heaven-sent ‘joy’ (possible Emersonian conversion, 1850)
herbarium of; see also Herbarium of Emily Dickinson
invisibility and
legend, ‘the white legend’
‘lost’ friends
mortality and
papers and manuscripts, see papers and manuscripts of ED
in Philadelphia (1855)
photographs and portraits of
daguerreotype of
portrait of the Dickinson children
physical appearance of
hair
freckles
piano of
readers
reclusive existence
seclusion and
solitude and
religion, see religion: ED and
secrecy
self-reliance and
sense of importance
sentimental legend, see legend of ED
sexuality
spoken voice of
vision (‘The Spirit’, ‘Guest’, ‘waylaying Light’)
in Washington (1855)
will of
on wives and marriage
Dickinson, Emily (ED) (correspondence)
with Mary Bowles
with Samuel Bowles
burning of received letters
in childhood
dating of
with Austin Dickinson
with Ned Dickinson
with Susan Dickinson
Austin’s adultery and
letter-poems