Emily Dickinson

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Standard Name: Dickinson, Emily
Birth Name: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Emily Dickinson is primarily known for her poems; she was also a letter writer. She published very little during her lifetime and the full scope of her output—some 1,775 poems—was discovered only after her death.
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. Knopf.
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ED 's verse thoroughly engages with the issue of identity, how best to be.
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. Knopf.
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She is held to be among the best and most original of nineteenth-century US poets.
Daguerrotype of Emily Dickinson by William C North, taken sometime between December 1846 and March 1847. She sits with her right elbow on a table beside her, which also a has a book on it. She wears her hair pulled back tight, and a dark gown with touches of white lace, and a ribbon round her neck. Amherst College.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosamund Marriott Watson
RMW 's total reviews eventually numbered over one hundred and fifty. In her first year she considered children's books (including a title by Beatrix Potter ), books on design, and second-rate novels. Her efforts were...
Friends, Associates Sylvia Townsend Warner
US poet Genevieve Taggard launched a literary friendship (and correspondence, from which Warner's surviving eighteen letters have recently been published) when she sent Warner a poem in 1941. Taggard was a poet particularly appreciated by...
Reception Michelene Wandor
MW won an international Emmy Award for her television adaptation of William Luce 's play about Emily Dickinson , The Belle of Amherst, for Thames Television .
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Goodman, Lizbeth, and Jane De Gay. Feminist Stages: Interviews with Women in Contemporary British Theatre. Harwood Academic Publishers.
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Textual Production Emma Tennant
ET published Wild Nights, a fictional childhood memoir, titled from the opening words of a poem by Emily Dickinson .
“Emma Tennant”. Fantastic Fiction.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Features Anne Stevenson
Despite the strong emotion expressed in some of these poems, AS later remembered the volume as setting free her gift for irony.
Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press.
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The final poem, A Legacy, On my Fiftieth Birthday, is written...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
ES loved Christina Rossetti from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein . As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho . . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti and...
Textual Features Edith Sitwell
The English edition appeared the following year. Her choice for inclusion is, as usual, idiosyncratic. She begins well before Chaucer , with anonymous early religious poems in which may be heard, she writes, the creaking...
Education Penelope Shuttle
At seventeen, she says (after the successive discoveries of Charlotte Brontë , T. S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson ), she began reading Rilke . Everything opened up then, a whole new world of poetry for me.
Mslexia. Mslexia Publications.
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Intertextuality and Influence Penelope Shuttle
The first book that affected PS deeply was Brontë 's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified.
Steffens, Daneet. “Penelope Shuttle”. Mslexia, No. 33, pp. 46-8.
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At fifteen she read T. S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson and conceived a wish to be...
Literary responses Penelope Shuttle
Reviewers were respectful, even enthusiastic. PS was likened to poets as various as Eavan Boland and Emily Dickinson , and praised for energy, for vigorous and various abundance,and for attention to the erogenous zones...
Textual Features Carol Shields
The poems in Others specialise in evocations of other people, often presented, as the titles of the poems acknowledge, not through an individual observer but through the self-confirming judgement of a couple or a group:...
Intertextuality and Influence Carol Shields
Following an epigraph from Emily Dickinson , Tell all the truth but tell it slant,CS here experiments with melodrama, coincidence, and other infringements on naturalism.
Wachtel, Eleanor, editor. “Carol Shields”. More Writers and Company: New Conversations with CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel, Vintage Canada, pp. 36-56.
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She also experiments with many voices, including what...
Reception Sappho
Among the earliest of Sappho 's translators into English was Anne Finch ; among recent translators is Mary Barnard , 1958. Stevie Smith declined to take her on. Finch chose to render not a love-poem...
Literary responses Laura Riding
She considered this book one of the two prime achievements of her writing life.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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It was the last volume that she published containing all new material. It was listed by the National Book League
Textual Features Adrienne Rich
These poems abandon AR 's former regular metres for free verse, as they abandon decorum for outspoken personal expression about the struggle necessary to be a thinking woman rather than a good girl.
O’Mahoney, John. “Poet and Pioneer: Adrienne Rich”. The Guardian, pp. Review 20 - 3.
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Timeline

August 1973: The National Women's Hall of Fame was inaugurated...

Building item

August 1973

The National Women's Hall of Fame was inaugurated at Seneca Falls, New York, USA, site of the women's rights convention of 19 July 1848.

Texts

Dickinson, Emily et al. A Letter to the World. Bodley Head, 1968.
Dickinson, Emily. “Biographical Note”. Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson’s Poems, edited by Thomas Johnson, Little, Brown, 1961, p. v - vi.
Dickinson, Emily. “Editorial Materials”. Open Me Carefully. Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson, edited by Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith, Paris Press, 1998, p. various pages.
Dickinson, Emily. Further Poems of Emily Dickinson withheld from publication by her sister Lavinia. Editors Bianchi, Martha Dickinson and Alfred Leete Hampson, Little, Brown, and Co., 1929.
Dickinson, Emily. Poems by Emily Dickinson. Editors Todd, Mabel Loomis and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Roberts Brothers, 1890.
Dickinson, Emily, and Martha Dickinson Bianchi. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Little, Brown, 1924.
Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Editor Johnson, Thomas, Faber and Faber, 1970.
Dickinson, Emily. The Letters of Emily Dickinson. Editor Johnson, Thomas, Harvard University Press, 1958.
Bianchi, Martha Dickinson, and Emily Dickinson. The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson. Houghton Mifflin, 1924.
Bianchi, Martha Dickinson, and Emily Dickinson. The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson. Biblo and Tannen, 1971.
Dickinson, Emily. The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson. Editor Franklin, Ralph W., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981.
Dickinson, Emily. The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Editor Johnson, Thomas, Belknap Press, 1955.