Lives Like Loaded Guns_ Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds - Lyndall Gordon [254]
Seelye, President Julius
Seneca Falls declaration (1848)
Sewall, Richard B.
The Life of Emily Dickinson (2 vols, 1974, repr. 1994)
Shakespeare, William
plays (Lady Macbeth: ‘Look like the innocent flower’)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Showalter, Elaine
Sieveking, Edward
Smith, Martha Nell
Smith College
Soviet bloc dissident literature
Spaulding, Frances
Spaulding, Timothy
Spofford, Elizabeth Prescott
Springfield Republican
ED’s obituary
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (women’s rights leader)
Stearns, Mrs Mary
Stearns, Professor
Stevenson, Juliet
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Sweetser family
Swenson, Tree
Taft, S. S. (lawyer)
Taggard, Genevieve
Temple, Minny (Henry James’s cousin)
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
theatre involving ED
Thoreau, Henry David
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Todd, David Peck
ambition and
Amherst College observatory and
Austin Dickinson and
Vinnie Dickinson and
ED’s poetry and
expeditions and
infidelity and promiscuity
land transfer and (1885)
land trial (March-April 1898)
mental health problems
physical appearance of
sexual experimentation and
Mabel Todd’s adultery and
Mabel Todd’s lectures and
Millicent Todd and
Total Eclipses of the Sun (1894)
Todd, Mabel Loomis
ambition and; see also presentiment
arrival in Amherst (1881)
in Boston (winter 1889-90)
Caro Andrews and
centenary celebrations (1930) and
character of
death of (14 October 1932)
diaries of
journals of
Austin Dickinson and
abortion story
Austin and Mabel (ed. Polly Longsworth, 1984)
Austin’s health
Austin’s will and
death of Austin and
early encounters
feud caused by adultery
see also War between the Houses
land transfer, first (1885-6)
land transfer, second
Mabel’s parents and
plans to conceive a child (1888)
relationship, early months of (1882-3)
Rubicon moment (11 September 1882)
relationship (1883-6 period)
relationship (1886-95, after ED’s death)
sexual relationship
see also The Homestead: Austin Dickinson’s adultery at
thoughts of fleeing west (1887, 1893)
Austin Dickinson and (correspondence)
caution in
passion in
publishing of (1984)
on Sue
on Gib Dickinson
Ned Dickinson and
Mattie Dickinson and
ED publications
Susan Dickinson and
campaigns against Sue
friendship
Mabel’s desire to be/replace Sue
Mabel’s fantasy of Sue’s death
Mabel’s ‘presentiment’
slanders against Sue
Vinnie Dickinson and, see Dickinson, Lavinia (Vinnie, sister of ED): Mabel Todd and
Dickinson meadow and
see also land trial (March-April 1898)
domesticity and
ED and
correspondence
ED legend
ED’s poetry
see also Todd, Mabel Loomis (as editor of ED)
ED’s rebuffs
lack of face-to-face meetings
education of
family background
Mary Lee Hall and
Thomas Wentworth Higginson and
houses in Amherst
see also The Dell (Todd house in Amherst)
journey to Japan (1887)
journey to Japan (1896)
marriage to David Peck Todd, see Todd, David Peck
music and art teaching by
as New Woman
in old age
painting of Indian Pipes
physical appearance of
presentiment; see also ambition
public speaking/lectures
sexuality
singing and artistic talents
stay in Washington (1883)
stroke and disability
theatricality; spotlight
Todd-Bingham archive
tour of Europe (1885)
writing and
Total Eclipses of the Sun (1894)
Todd, Mabel Loomis (as editor of ED)
ED’s poems
copyright and royalty issues
Poems (12 November 1890)
Poems: Second Series (1891)
Poems: Third Series (1896)
possession of manuscripts
see also papers and manuscripts of ED: Todd collection
preface to Poems: Second Series
publicity and promotion
refusal to continue editing (1898)
tampering with booklets
Millicent Todd and
transcription of poems
financial aspects
land trial (March-April 1898)
Letters
copyright and royalty issues
Millicent Todd and
omission of Susan Dickinson
publicity and promotion
revised edition (1931)
tampering with letters
Todd, Millicent (later Bingham; daughter of Mabel Todd)
Amherst College and
childhood of
conception of
Austin Dickinson and
Mattie Dickinson and
Susan Dickinson and
Vinnie Dickinson