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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

• Academy of American Poets: Emily Dickinson
  Access useful biographical information and electronic versions of many of her poems.
  
  
• University of Maryland's Women's Studies Database Reading Room
  Access 100 selected Dickinson poems.
  
  
• Dickinson Electronic Archives
  A significant site for Dickinson scholarship.
  
  
• Emily Dickinson Writing a Poem
  This site offers information and documentation that challenges the myth of Dickinson as a reclusive poet who wrote her works in solitude.
  
  
• About Dickinson's "Fascicles"
  Read about Dickinson's "fascicles" in a section from the introduction to Dorothy Huff Oberhaus' Emily Dickinson's Fascicles: Method and Meaning.
  
  
• About Dickinson's Use of the Dash
  Kamilla Denma examines the subtleties of Dickinson's dashes.
  
  
• Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
  A useful site with substantial information about her family, life and work as well as numerous illustrations.
  
  
• The "Virtual Emily" Page
  Features maps, photographs and information about Dickinson, her life, her family and her community.
  
  
• Emily Dickinson's Obituary
  On May 18, 1886 The Springfield Republican published an unsigned obituary of Dickinson, written by her sister-in-law, Susan Dickinson.
  
  
• Thomas Wentworth Higginson's 1891 Atlantic article
  In this article Higginson describes the beginnings of his important correspondence with Emily Dickinson.
  
  
• Correspondence between Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  This site provides copies of the important letters between Dickinson and Higginson.
  
  
• Emily Dickinson Museum
  This museum allows visitors to see where and how Dickinson and her family lived.
  
  
• Film: LOADED GUN: Life, and Death, and Dickinson
  Read about the controversial PBS film about Dickinson.
  
  
• The Emily Dickinson Photograph
  Read about the discovery of a new photograph of Dickinson and the processes of verification.
  
  
• How I Met and Dated Miss Emily Dickinson: An Adventure on eBay
  Philip F. Gura writes his remarkable story: "This is the story of how I stumbled on something rare almost beyond comprehension. On April 12, 2000, I purchased in an eBay online auction what may be the second known photograph of Emily Dickinson."
  
  
• Gallway Kinnell's Salon.com article on Dickinson
  Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Kinnell offers a tribute to Dickinson and her work.
  
  
• Ruth Owen Jones ' article on the "Master Letters."
  Historian Ruth Owen Jones digs into the unsolved mystery of Emily Dickinson's passionate "Master Letters."
  
  

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