Adams, John (composer) 139, 408
Adams, Miss (schoolteacher) 36, 37
Agassiz, Louis 170
Alcott, Louisa May 171–2, 209–10
American Literature 343, 358
Amherst (Massachusetts) 3, 31, 32–3
religious revival in 15, 21, 43, 45, 61, 63, 157
Mabel Todd’s arrival in 9–14, 134, 158, 169
Amherst Academy 33–4, 36–8, 39–42, 48–9, 59, 62, 153
Amherst College 32, 39–40, 61, 132, 135, 350, 371
Austin Dickinson as treasurer 10, 134, 159, 190–1, 283, 287
Edward Dickinson as treasurer 32–3, 117, 156
Mattie Dickinson and 351, 362
observatory 9–10, 175, 184, 190–1, 222, 242, 283, 323, 334
Todd collection donated to (1956) 392–3
Andrews, Caroline (Caro) Lovejoy 222–3, 258
Andersen, Hans Christian, ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’ 88*, 96
Anthony, Susan B. (women’s rights leader) 154
Antinomian Controversy (1637) 52
archival records 9, 394–5, 403, 407, 409–18, 425–6
Atlantic Monthly 87, 112, 260–1
Austen, Jane and family legend 275
Balzac, Honoré de, Comédie humaine (1842–7) 346
Bartlett, Revd and Mary 72–3, 74
Baskin, Lisa 469
Bates, Arlo 258–9
Beecher, Revd Henry Ward 87
Being John Malkovich (film, 1999) 165
Bell, Currer, see Brontë, Charlotte
The Belle of Amherst (William Luce play) 29, 165
Benfey, Christopher 56, 79, 160, 420, 454
A Summer of Hummingbirds (2008) 418, 432, 435, 437, 443, 446, 447(2), 448
Bennett, Revd John, Letters to a Young Lady (1789) 23, 25, 29–30
Bianchi, Captain Alexander 321–3, 331, 347
Bigelow, Dr 216*, 227*
Bingham, Walter 335–6, 343, 355–6, 359, 364, 381, 384–6, 388
death of (7 July 1952) 389, 393
biography 7, 8–9, 103, 104, 109–10, 150, 214, 217–18, 255 (the unseen space between the scenes), 263, 267, 268, 320, 353, 391, 392, 393, 394–7
ED’s keenness on 86, 169, 209
see also ED on ‘Existence’ in ‘I tie my Hat’
Blackmur, R. P. 359
Bliss, Mildred and Robert 376, 466, 467
Bloomsbury Group 142
Boston Conservatory of Music 171, 172, 247
Bostridge, Mark 115, 433, 435, 439
Bowles, Mary 99–101, 105–7, 112, 342, 358, 396
Bowles, Samuel 16, 86, 101–2, 108, 109, 234, 269
death of (1878) 168, 211–12, 221
Austin Dickinson and 99, 102, 105, 107–8, 109
ED and 86, 111–13, 143, 145, 157, 211, 217–18, 349
candidate for ‘Master’ 95, 98–9, 102–3, 104, 107, 108, 109, 112, 113
correspondence 98–9, 102–3, 105–9, 112, 113, 144, 145, 146, 268, 269
naming of baby Bowles 107, 342, 358
poetry 98–9, 102–3, 107, 108–9, 140, 145, 146, 152, 212, 341
Susan Dickinson and 86, 87, 99–100, 102, 109, 112, 217–18, 269, 317, 325, 355
Brittle Heaven (Vincent Yorke and Frederick Pohl play, 1935) 350
Brontë sisters 16, 29, 63–4, 85–6, 113, 209, 402
Anne Brontë, Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1847) 85
Charlotte Brontë 26, 52, 85–6, 109, 145, 154, 433(2), 436
Jane Eyre (1847) 8, 47, 64, 86, 134, 149, 432
Shirley (1849) 66, 99
Villette (1853) 73, 84*, 85, 147
Emily Brontë 29, 63–4, 85–6, 402, 470
Wuthering Heights (1847) 85, 92, 96, 104, 210
Brown University (Providence, RI) 407
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 16, 63, 73, 84–5, 87, 99, 109, 154, 301
Aurora Leigh (1857) 84, 88, 149
death of (1861) 107, 342
Browning, Robert 107, 358*, 454
Brown-Séquard, C. E. 216*
Bruni, Carla 408, 443
Buffam, Miss Vryling Wilder 279, 301
Bumpus, Everett C. 287, 292, 294–8, 299, 301, 309
Burnett, Frances Hodgson 87, 189–90
Byron, George Gordon, Lord 97, 104, 142, 443
Cable, Mrs Washington 311
Caesar, Julius 138
Carder, James 466
Caxton, William (first printer in England) 141
Century magazine 251, 275
Channing, William Ellery 53
Charcot, Professor 127, 131*
Chaucer, Geoffrey 82
Chekhov, Anton, Three Sisters (1901) 14
Chicago World’s Fair (1933) 359
Chickering, Joseph 149, 213
Civil War, American 138–9, 147, 148, 273, 350
Clark, Philip 443
Cole, President (of Amherst College) 392–3
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 130
Cooke, Fidelia 109
Coolidge, President Calvin 350
Coonley, Lydia 248
Cutler, Harriet (née Gilbert) 63, 64, 76
Cutler, William 63, 64, 72, 74
daguerreotype of ED 21, 22, 274–5, 354, 358, 363
Dartmouth College 32, 73, 335
Darwin, Charles, The Origin of Species (1859) 40
de Caen, Walter 31, 363
The Dell (Todd house in Amherst) 252, 254, 284, 307, 323
building of (1860) 228–30, 231, 239, 452
Vinnie Dickinson’s visits to 256, 257, 280
Margaret Maher at 253–4, 295–6, 297
Dickens, Charles 76*, 101*, 142, 192*, 319, 402, 444, 470
Dickinson, Austin (brother of ED)
biographical/personal details
Amherst College treasurer 10, 134, 159, 190–1, 283, 287
birth of (1829) 25
character of 12, 18, 28, 134, 179, 182, 183, 233, 235
childhood and education 28, 30, 61, 67
Civil War and 147
death of (16 August 1895) 280–2, 285, 293, 314, 329
grim humour 68–9, 76, 318
Harvard Law School 74, 76
health of 135, 280
legal career 80, 159
physical appearance of 66, 83, 230, 320
sexuality 197, 198, 222–3, 229, 241, 258
standing in Amherst 3, 10, 198
teaching post in Boston 68, 70, 121, 122
temperament 6, 27, 68, 134, 135, 183, 233, 235, 238, 241, 282, 403
voice of 22
will of (signed November 1887) 242–3, 284–5
Samuel Bowles and 99, 102, 105, 107–8, 109
diaries of 197, 198, 394
Ned Dickinson’s health and 134–5
Susan Gilbert Dickinson and, see Dickinson, Susan (née Gilbert): Austin Dickinson and Vinnie Dickinson and 271–2, 276, 279, 280, 292–3, 304
ED and 21, 44, 45, 133–4, 228, 241–2, 273–4, 392
correspondence 44, 46–7, 48, 58, 61–2, 68, 70, 121
ED’s health 121, 122, 226, 268, 274
ED’s poetry 137, 254–5, 258, 260, 267, 276
Martha Gilbert and 69–70, 75, 76, 233, 320
royalty and contract issues and 271–2, 279, 352
David Todd and 190–1, 197, 224, 229, 242, 280, 281, 283, 284, 307
Mabel Todd and, see Todd, Mabel Loomis: Austin Dickinson and
Dickinson, Edward (father of ED)
Amherst College treasurer 32–3, 117, 156
character of 15, 21, 25, 27, 30, 32, 68, 157, 183, 187, 233
death of (16 June 1874) 21, 156–7, 159, 161, 168, 183, 221, 224, 233, 405
ED on 21, 30, 42, 48, 49, 157
ED’s education and 42, 50
ED’s health and 44, 113, 121, 122, 125, 127, 137
ED’s poetry and 48, 60, 82, 121, 125, 137, 138
emotional repression and 15, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 74
family debts and 24, 32–3, 80, 89, 156
The Homestead and 16, 33, 80–1, 390
legal career 24, 30, 32, 42, 80
marriage to Emily Norcross 23–5, 26–7, 28–9, 163, 334, 375
myth of as tyrannical 349
orphaned nieces of 89–90, 156
paternal authority of 21, 30, 35, 125, 161, 165, 332
politics and 30, 78–9, 80, 147, 156
religion and 15, 21, 30, 35, 143, 157
views on women 25, 26, 42, 48
Dickinson, Elizabeth (Aunt Elizabeth) 23, 25, 158–9
Dickinson, Emily (ED) (biographical issues and themes)
ancestry and family history 30–2, 183, 184, 243
biographical works on 8–9, 349, 350, 392
Emily Dickinson’s Home: Letters of Edward Dickinson and his family (Millicent Todd, 1955) 8, 381–2, 384–5, 390, 391–2, 394
Face to Face (Mattie Dickinson, 1932) 357–9, 372, 373
Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (Martha Dickinson Bianchi, 1924) 338, 340–2, 348, 351, 359, 363, 372
Life of Emily Dickinson (Richard B. Sewall, 1974) 8, 394–5
see also Sewall, Richard B.
My Wars are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (Alfred Habegger, 2001) 419, 426, 429(6), 430(4), 432(2), 434(2), 435, 437, 438(2), 439, 441, 442(2), 445
This Was a Poet (George Whicher, 1938) 362, 363
birth of (10 December 1830) 25
cameo brooch 333, 363, 404
centenary celebrations (1930) 349–51, 352, 371, 372, 380
character of 16, 21–2, 46–7, 61, 68, 77, 89, 273–4, 332
control and 17, 23, 405
fearlessness/boldness 30, 35, 60, 64
grim humour 68–9, 318
intellect 8, 28, 49, 86, 99, 108, 121, 143
‘old-fashioned’ image 14, 29, 77, 165, 404
passion and 6, 27, 49–50, 55–6, 72, 105, 106, 111
temperament 51, 60, 64, 235
childhood of 27, 28, 29, 33–8
clothes and 14, 22, 42, 98, 123, 151, 165, 275, 333–4, 357, 404
death of (15 May 1886) 227, 227*, 228, 231, 241–2, 273, 302, 306, 308
Austin Dickinson’s adultery and 186, 192–3, 200, 201–3, 204–6, 225, 226–7, 236, 279
land transfer and (1885) 224–5, 294, 302, 307
domestic life 16, 29, 88, 155
The Homestead and 5, 7, 16, 81, 86
housework 47–9, 50–1, 82, 121, 155
gardening 29, 65, 96, 155, 183, 227
double existence 7–8, 93–4, 98
education 33–4, 36–7, 39, 41–2, 59, 60
fellow students 44, 45–6, 50, 60
geology and 39–41
higher (at Mount Holyoke) 37, 42–4, 45–7, 50, 51, 52, 53, 56
school/college teachers 36, 37, 44, 59
schoolmates (at Amherst Academy) 34, 36, 37–8, 48–50, 59, 60, 61
fictional/dramatic representations of 29, 165–6, 350, 395–6
health 4, 5, 9, 78, 81, 159, 200, 215–19, 221, 222, 339, 405, 439
in childhood/teenage years 22, 33–4, 37, 44–5, 268, 430, 431
Austin Dickinson’s adultery and 200, 216*, 221, 226, 227
ED legend and 22, 274, 275
epilepsy 116–19, 121–31, 135–6, 138–9, 141–2, 150, 167–8, 216, 216*, 442
final decline (1885–6) 225, 226–7, 427
poetry and 111–12, 114–18, 119, 123, 124–7, 128–30, 136, 137–9, 217, 219
poisons administered as medicine 216*
removal from Mount Holyoke and 44–5, 133
secrecy 45, 114, 117, 122, 124, 138, 168, 268, 274, 275
treatments in Boston 119–21, 126–30, 268, 442
heaven-sent ‘joy’ (possible Emersonian conversion, 1850) 56–7
herbarium of 29, 39, 71; see also Herbarium of Emily Dickinson
invisibility and 7, 9, 16, 82, 231, 338
legend 6, 7, 9, 22, 31, 77, 113, ‘the white legend’ 165, 201, 205, 261, 268, 274, 275, 340–3, 348, 353, 357–9, 362–3, 381–3, 391–2, 403–4
‘lost’ friends 49, 50, 57, 77, 79–80, 112, 152–3
mortality and 33, 34, 35, 72, 85, 168, 216–17, 221, 227
papers and manuscripts, see papers and manuscripts of ED
in Philadelphia (1855) 79, 95, 340, 348
photographs and portraits of
daguerreotype of 21, 22, 274–5, 354, 358, 363
portrait of the Dickinson children 273, 274, 358, 373, 457
physical appearance of 21, 22–3, 96, 151, 274–5, 331–2, 354, 358
hair 4, 14, 22, 84–5, 151, 228, 230, 274, 331, 354, 373
freckles 429
piano of 12, 42, 202, 333, 404
readers 14, 15, 25, 36, 38, 60, 87, 141, 144–55, 206, 402
reclusive existence 4, 11, 14, 16, 113, 158, 260, 261, 273
seclusion and 84, 98, 113, 115, 117, 121, 124–5, 131*, 274
solitude and 16, 79, 90, 140, 165, 168
religion, see religion: ED and
Dickinson, Emily (ED) — continued
secrecy 7, 23, 56–7, 93–4, 107, 113, 136, 138, 150, 168, 268
self-reliance and 46, 51, 52–3, 55, 60, 405
sense of importance 143–4
sentimental legend, see legend of ED
sexuality 6, 29, 92, 93–7, 105, 147, 162, 391, 397
spoken voice of 22, 141
vision (‘The Spirit’, ‘Guest’, ‘waylaying Light’) 4–5, 402
in Washington (1855) 78–9, 268
will of 265
on wives and marriage 25–6, 28, 59, 89, 97, 103–5
Dickinson, Emily (ED) (correspondence) 7, 22, 30, 50–1, 58–9, 81, 144–6
with Mary Bowles 105–7, 112, 342
with Samuel Bowles 98–9, 102–3, 105–9, 112, 113, 144, 145, 146, 268, 269
burning of received letters 7, 59*, 267
in childhood 31, 34, 36, 37–8, 133, 266
dating of 266, 267–8, 310, 353, 389
with Austin Dickinson 44, 46–7, 48, 58, 61–2, 68, 70, 121
with Ned Dickinson 133, 203, 222, 224–5, 284, 331
with Susan Dickinson 5, 15–16, 73, 88, 96, 152–3, 203, 217–18, 267, 332, 334
Austin’s adultery and 17, 227
letter-poems 74, 81, 145, 151, 263–6, 276, 320, 331, 332–3
omission from Letters 268, 353–4, 366, 383
Sue at Lake Michigan (1854–5) 77, 78
Sue in Baltimore (1851–2) 65, 69, 70–1
Sue’s ownership of letters 266, 276, 320
Mabel Todd’s tampering with 267, 383
health and 5, 9, 93, 115, 121, 131*, 133, 227, 439
with Thomas Wentworth Higginson 112, 115, 138, 146–9, 206, 260–1, 273
with the Hollands 144, 150, 163, 214, 234, 268, 372–3
with Jane Humphrey 49, 56–7, 79–80
with Helen Hunt Jackson 207, 374
with Otis Lord 160, 162, 163, 164–5, 166–7, 212, 213–14, 268, 390–1, 402
with Mabel’s parents 203, 219, 220
‘Master’ letters, see ‘Master’ letters of ED
with Zebina Montague 31, 45, 133
at Mount Holyoke 43, 44, 45, 46–7
with Benjamin Franklin Newton 54, 56, 57, 58
with Thomas Niles 169, 208, 209, 210
with Joel Norcross (uncle) 54–5, 56, 104–5
with Norcross sisters 145, 268–9, 368
publication of
Letters 265, 266–73, 274, 279, 304, 320
Letters (revised edition, 1931) 351–3, 356–7
The Letters of Emily Dickinson, i–iii (eds Thomas H. Johnson and Theodora Van Wagenen Ward, 1958) 411, 418, 426, 441, 445, 446, 451
Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924) 338, 340–2, 348, 351, 359, 363, 372
with Abiah Root 34, 36–7, 38, 54, 77, 131*, 149, 266, 268
to schoolmates 36, 37, 38, 49, 54, 266
with Mabel Todd 203, 204, 205, 206, 218–19, 223, 225, 226–7, 230, 268
transmission of poems through 14, 23, 74, 142, 144, 145, 151, 153, 155
with Charles Wadsworth 79, 95
with Maria Whitney 101, 211, 212, 268
Dickinson, Emily (ED) (literary and personal relationships)
Samuel Bowles, see Bowles, Samuel: ED and
Austin Dickinson, see Dickinson, Austin (brother of ED)
Mattie Dickinson 330, 331, 332, 333–4, 339, 357
Susan Dickinson, see Dickinson, Susan (née Gilbert): ED and
Vinnie Dickinson, see Dickinson, Lavinia (Vinnie, sister of ED)
Martha Gilbert 70, 76, 320
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, see Higginson, Thomas Wentworth: ED and
Helen Hunt Jackson 153–4, 207, 208, 211, 212, 261, 350, 374
Otis Lord 159–65, 166–8, 182, 202, 211, 212–14, 261, 342, 391, 405, 446
omission from Letters 268
Benjamin Franklin Newton 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58–9, 60
parents, see Dickinson, Edward (father of ED); Dickinson, Emily (née Norcross, mother of ED)
Mabel Todd 12–13, 14, 18, 186, 201–6
ED’s avoidance of Mabel 201–2, 226, 298, 306–7
ED’s rebuffs 203, 204, 205, 206, 218–19, 225, 226–7
gifts for ED 198, 203–4, 205, 226–7
Dickinson, Emily (ED) (poetic and literary themes/issues)
Samuel Bowles and 98–9, 102–3, 107, 108–9, 140, 145, 146, 152, 212, 341
Charlotte Brontë influence of, see Brontë, Charlotte
Emily Brontë influence of 85–6, 104, 210, 402, 470
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, influence of 84–5
childhood, poems on 34–5
confessional gestures 94, 125, 138, 401–2
‘Daisy’ role 29, 95–8, 102–3, 109, 110–11, 112, 164, 168, 273, 303
deathless love 91–2, 96–7
Susan Dickinson, poems addressed to 5, 16, 90–2, 145, 396
editorial interference and 109, 140, 152, 208, 259, 260
George Eliot, admiration of 8, 87, 154, 169, 209
Ralph Waldo Emerson, influence of 46, 51, 53–4, 55, 57, 405
geology 39, 40–1
grammar 30, 125, 139, 141, 146, 259
gun theme 6, 23, 32, 55–6, 93, 104, 115, 117, 119, 136, 255, 348
Thomas Wentworth Higginson and, see Higginson, Thomas Wentworth: ED and
home-made booklets 5, 90, 130, 137, 140, 155, 158, 159, 250, 266, 298
Thomas H. Johnson and 410, 456
Mabel Todd’s tampering with 267, 396
The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson (2 vols, ed. R. W. Franklin, 1981) 410, 411, 426
immortality and 4, 34, 57, 81, 98, 136, 140, 168, 273, 348, 401, 404, 405
improvisation 86, 140, 141, 142, 202, 261, 333
‘letter-poems’ 145, 146, 151, 263–6, 276, 320, 331, 332–3
lineation 140, 258, 396
‘Master’ 55, 56, 136, 147
see also ‘Master’ letters of ED
music and, see music and ED’s poetry
poetic style 25–6, 54, 81, 111, 125, 136, 139, 146, 251, 259, 260
earthquakes 7, 39, 40, 94, 115, 124
see also volcanoes
mines 92, 144, 217, 444
imagery 7, 39, 41, 150
publication
imposition of titles 109, 260, 365
postponement of 138, 139, 140, 142, 251–2
unsuccessful attempts 208–9, 210–11, 212, 250, 251
published poems/collections 207–8, 263, 359, 374, 392
Bolts of Melody (1945) 363, 364–5, 372
Complete Poems (1924) 338, 359
Further Poems of Emily Dickinson Withheld from Publication by Her Sister Lavinia (1929) 348, 359, 464
Poems (12 November 1890) 258–63, 306
The Poems of Emily Dickinson (3 vols, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, 1955, repr. as The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, 1976) 392, 411, 425, 426
Poems: Second Series 266, 273, 306
Poems: Third Series 285–6, 287, 290, 292, 306, 314, 317, 320
The Single Hound: Poems of a Life-time (1914) 331–3, 338, 339, 365, 436
in Springfield Republican 99, 109, 140, 146, 152, 212
Unpublished Poems (1935) 359
see also Franklin, R. W.: The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (3 vols, ed., 1998)
publishing rights, see publishing rights
punctuation 35, 107, 140–1, 258, 259, 260, 365, 405
dashes 35, 93, 94, 98, 104, 111, 125, 141, 251, 260, 265, 405
losses during transcription/printing 265, 396
‘Queen’ theme 84, 102, 110, 136, 172, 183, 204, 403, 404
reciprocal responses to poems 111, 141
reviews of published works 261–3
Romantic subjectivity and 129–30
Christina Rossetti, influence of 269–70
Mabel Todd as editor of, see Todd, Mabel Loomis (as editor of ED)
transmission of poems through letters/private circulation 14, 23, 74, 142, 144, 145, 151, 153, 155
variant versions of poems 140
‘wife’ poems 7, 25–6, 28, 58, 59, 103–8, 137–8, 143, 182, 260, 341, 397
working methods 5, 81, 82, 250, 364–5
Dickinson, Emily (ED) (WORKS of), see Index of First Lines 490–1
Dickinson, Emily (née Norcross, mother of ED) 15, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 80
death of (1882) 167, 181
health of 13, 25, 26–7, 80, 157–8, 168
housekeeping and 47, 48, 67
marriage to Edward Dickinson 23–5, 26–7, 28–9, 163, 334, 375
Dickinson, Gilbert (Gib, nephew of ED) 177–8, 180, 183–4, 185, 330, 354–5
death of (1883) 189, 192, 216*, 217, 221, 233, 330, 355
Dickinson, Lavinia (Vinnie, sister of ED)
birth of (1833) 25
Samuel Bowles and 112, 269
character of 27, 28, 66, 68, 182, 252, 303, 318, 367
childhood and education 31, 39, 47, 67, 153
Dickinson, Lavinia — continued
death of (31 August 1899) 273, 319, 320
Austin Dickinson and 6, 271–2, 276, 279, 280, 292–3, 304
Austin’s will 242–3, 284–5
Mattie Dickinson and 263, 284, 289, 310
Ned Dickinson and 291, 306, 307, 310, 314, 316
Susan Dickinson and 253, 255, 261, 263, 265–6, 286, 315, 316
ED and 11, 14, 21, 111, 158, 211, 228, 239, 276, 318
ED’s health 123, 126, 130, 136, 159, 168, 215, 216*
ED’s physical appearance 274–5
Letters 266, 270–2, 304, 356, 357
publishing rights, see publishing rights: Vinnie Dickinson and ED’s poetry and 137, 252–3, 255–6, 280, 310
hidden manuscripts 319, 347–8
life’s work discovered after death 98
ownership of manuscripts 255–6, 257, 258, 259, 265–6, 276, 316–17, 319, 357, 393
Poems 258, 259, 261, 262, 263, 306
Poems: Second Series 306
Poems: Third Series 285–6, 287, 306, 317, 320
health of 294, 301
Thomas Wentworth Higginson and 254, 257
literature and 66, 67, 68
Joseph Lyman and 67–8
physical appearance of 66, 68, 85, 286, 301, 303, 327, 354, 367
poems of 318–19
religion and 61
supposed will of 293, 363–4, 393
Mabel Todd and 270–2, 281, 285–9, 316, 317, 319, 326–7, 353, 354
Bill of Complaint 290, 292–8, 320
friendship 21, 186, 189, 198, 202, 252–3, 255, 256, 279–80
land trial (March—April 1898) 292–8, 301–11, 316, 317, 319, 323, 325, 329, 382, 389, 407
slander suit (1897–8) 299–301, 313
state Supreme Court appeal 311–12, 329
Mabel Todd and Austin’s adultery 6, 189, 192, 221, 223, 224, 226, 256, 276, 279, 297, 306
Vinnie as go-between 185, 186, 197, 200, 202, 280
Dickinson, Martha (Mattie, niece of ED)
Amherst College and 351
character of 327, 331, 372
childhood of 134, 178, 180, 181, 187–8, 327, 330–1, 332
death of (1943) 363, 365, 369
diaries of 375
Austin Dickinson and 134, 238–9, 245, 284, 320, 331
Ned Dickinson’s death and 315
Vinnie Dickinson and 134, 263, 284, 289, 310
ED and 134, 330, 331, 332, 333–4, 339, 357
ED legend and 340–2, 342*, 348–9, 357–8, 362, 363, 382
ED publications and
Complete Poems (of ED, 1924) 338, 359
Face to Face 357–9, 372, 373
Further Poems of Emily Dickinson Withheld from Publication by Her Sister Lavinia (1929) 348, 359
Herbarium of Emily Dickinson 29, 39, 71, 434
Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924) 338, 340–2, 348, 351, 359, 363, 372
The Single Hound: Poems of a Life-time (1914) 331–3, 338, 339, 365
Unpublished Poems (of ED, 1935) 359
feud and 325, 326, 338–9, 340–4, 345, 347–9, 350–1, 356–9, 362–3
Alfred Hampson and 347, 359, 362, 363, 369, 373, 374
health of 321, 322, 331, 334
Houghton Library and 407, 408–10
inaccurate editing and 358–9, 362, 365, 372
marriage of 321–3, 331, 347
physical appearance of 331, 351
public speaking and lectures 342–3, 348–9, 350–1
publishing rights and 338–9, 352, 362, 364, 369, 381
sale of The Homestead (1916) 323, 333
‘Sister’ camp (late twentieth century) 397
Mabel Todd and 178, 179, 181, 184, 185, 187–8, 299, 330, 331, 338, 383
Austin’s adultery 185, 200, 221, 230, 245, 248, 330
ED publications 338–40, 343–4, 356–7
Millicent Todd and 327, 341–2, 343, 382, 393–4
will (1938) 362, 364
writing and 320–1, 331–2, 339, 340–2, 347
Dickinson, Ned (Edward Dickinson, Jr, nephew of ED) 18, 152, 238–9, 284, 314–15, 330, 368
death of (3 May 1898) 315, 316, 318
Vinnie Dickinson and 291, 306, 307, 310, 314, 316
ED and 162–3, 222, 224–5, 291, 314, 317
health of 4, 133, 134–5, 180, 225, 226, 234, 236, 291, 313–14, 315
Mabel Todd and 178–9, 180, 181, 184, 185, 306
Austin—Mabel adultery 199, 200, 203, 221–2, 224–5, 226, 236, 237, 245, 313–14
Dickinson, Pliny (cousin of ED) 90
Dickinson, Samuel Fowler (grandfather of ED) 32, 132, 156
Dickinson, Susan (née Gilbert)
abortion story and 88, 134–5, 190–1, 234
Samuel Bowles and 86, 87, 99–100, 102, 109, 112, 217–18, 269, 317, 325, 355
character of 16, 64, 134, 234, 395
death of (1913) 325, 331, 332
Austin Dickinson and 15, 91, 133–5, 199, 200, 233–4, 284, 383, 395
abortion story 88, 134–5, 190–1, 234
Austin’s adultery 3–4, 6, 18, 184–9, 192, 199, 200, 221–2, 230, 280
children of 4, 6, 17, 18, 88, 133, 134–5, 152, 178, 183–4, 185
see also Dickinson, Gilbert (Gib, nephew of ED); Dickinson, Martha (Mattie, niece of ED); Dickinson, Ned (Edward Dickinson, Jr, nephew of ED)
correspondence 65–6, 69, 73, 74, 83, 243–4, 245, 267
courtship and engagement 65–6, 69, 74–8, 80, 83
family rituals/customs 237, 238–9, 241, 243–4, 245
wallpaper incident (January 1885) 3–4, 221, 222, 236
wedding (1856) 83, 233
Vinnie Dickinson and 253, 255, 261, 263, 265–6, 286, 315, 316
domestic life 88, 235, 265
ED and 11, 63–4, 70–2, 76–7, 96, 110, 153, 186, 397, 403, 405
ardour of friendship 69, 91–2, 153, 180, 217–18, 227, 267, 383, 397
Austin’s adultery 17, 192–3, 200, 225, 236, 237
correspondence, see Dickinson, Emily (ED) (correspondence): with Susan Dickinson
death of ED 227, 228
ED’s health 123, 150
Mabel’s campaigns 234–5, 267, 383
marriage to Austin 83, 88, 89, 91, 96, 134, 161, 233, 235
obituary of ED 250–1, 320
Open Me Carefully (1998 compilation of writings) 396–7
‘ownership’ and 69, 144–5
Sue as ED’s reading partner 15–16, 84, 85, 86, 143, 144
ED’s poetry and 11, 13, 16, 73–4, 81, 92, 99, 152, 180, 212, 217, 218
after ED’s death 250–1, 252, 253, 259, 263–5, 332–3
as ED’s prime reader 89, 90, 151, 152, 180, 206, 250, 264, 332, 382
inherits rights 273, 320
‘letter-poems’ 74, 81, 90–2, 145, 151, 263–6, 276, 320, 331, 332–3
poems addressed to 5, 16, 90–2, 145, 396
The Single Hound: Poems of a Life-time (1914) 331–3, 338, 339
education 62, 63, 86
The Evergreens and 84, 87–8, 235, 265
salon at 16, 84, 87–8, 235, 253
family background 15, 62–4, 325, 346, 355
fear of childbirth 88, 135, 183, 234
guest-helper of Mary Bartlett 72–3, 74
Mary Lee Hall and 315–16, 317
health of 4, 76–7
Thomas Wentworth Higginson and 87, 263
Alice Hill and 314–15
intellect 16, 62–3, 64, 73, 86, 87, 91, 143
life in twentieth century 319–20
literature and 15–16, 62–3, 73, 84, 90, 134, 153, 169, 238
Otis Lord and 160–1
mortality and 63, 64, 72
Clara and Anna Newman and 89, 90
physical appearance of 69, 83
religion and 15, 63
sexuality 83
‘Sister’ camp (late twentieth century) 396–7
teaching post in Baltimore 64–5, 69
Mabel Todd and, see Todd, Mabel Loomis: Susan Dickinson and
Millicent Todd and 355, 361, 363, 365, 381–3, 389, 391–3
trip to Lake Michigan (1854) 77–8, 112, 144
writing and 91, 320
Dickinson, Thankful 31, 243
Dickinson meadow 4, 33, 81, 157
Vinnie Dickinson and 242–3, 284–9, 290, 292–8, 320
first land transfer (1885–6) 224–5, 228–9, 231, 294, 302, 307–8, 365, 395
second land transfer 284–90, 292–3, 294, 295, 298, 299, 311
Mabel Todd and 228, 231, 239, 242–3, 284–9, 290, 292–8, 320
see also land trial (March—April 1898)
Dickinson, William Austin, see Austin Dickinson
‘Divinity School Address’ (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838) 53
Dixon, Isobel 447, 454
DNA and family 115, 132
Dodd, Mead and Company 211
Doherty, Pete (pop star) 139–40, 408
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 123, 124*, 138, 141, 408
Dumbarton Oaks (Washington DC) 376, 466
Edison, Thomas Alva 173
ED and 37–8, 42–4, 45–7, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 60
women and 29, 37, 39–40, 42–4, 52, 329
Edwards, Jonathan 51, 101, 177
Eliot, Christopher Dawes 78–9
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) 52, 154, 172, 209
novels by 87, 208
The Mill on the Floss 8, 16, 87, 99, 158
Middlemarch 169
Eliot, T. S. 31*, 79*, 131†, 144, 251, 263–4, 287*, 318†, 342*, 402, 435, 440
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 16, 53–4, 57, 88, 149, 171
self-reliance and 46, 51, 52, 53–4, 55, 244, 405
epilepsy 116–27, 124*, 129–30, 131–3, 138–9, 141–2, 216*, 442
Ned Dickinson and 133, 134–5, 315, 443
ED and 116–19, 121–31, 135–6, 138–9, 141–2, 150, 167–8, 216, 216*, 442
eyesight/visual abnormalities and 127–9, 130
women and 119, 122*, 130–1, 138; hystero-epilepsy 442
Esquirol, Jean-Étienne 122*
The Evergreens 3, 4, 16, 83–4, 86, 200, 284, 333–4
building of 80, 81, 89, 156
Austin Dickinson’s adultery at 245
Mattie Dickinson and 333–4, 347, 362
Susan Dickinson and 84, 265
salon at 16, 84, 87–8, 235, 253
wallpaper incident (January 1885) 3–4, 221, 222, 236
ED centenary celebrations (1930) 350, 351, 380
the Emily Room 333–4, 363, 374
furnishings and interiors 83, 84, 179, 285, 401
Alfred Hampson and 373, 374
Mary Hampson and 387, 401, 403
manuscripts at 320, 369, 373, 374–5, 381, 389
removal by Bill McCarthy 375, 379
transfer to Harvard 387–8
as museum 403–4, 470
‘pilgrims’ to 334, 363
Mabel Todd and 11, 12, 17, 178, 181, 184, 185, 186–7, 281, 299
evolutionary theory 40
Farley, Abbie 160, 213, 446; see also Lord, Otis Phillips
Farr, Judith 98, 411, 419, 434, 437, 438(3), 439(2), 444(2), 470
Field, Henry (lawyer, later judge) 290, 292, 303, 356
First World War 334–5
Firuski, Maurice (dealer in mss) 352
Fish, Dr 215, 216*
Fiske, Miss (teacher) 44
Flaubert, Gustave, Madame Bovary (1857) 284
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard 373
Folger Library (Washington) 384, 389–90
Fowler, Emily (later, Ford; school friend of ED) 50, 135, 266, 432, 445
Franklin, R. W.
The Editing of Emily Dickinson: a Reconsideration (1967) 267*, 410, 419, 427, 455, 456(2), 464
The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson (2 vols, ed., 1981) 410, 411, 426
The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson (ed., 1986) 411
The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (3 vols, ed., 1998) 410, 411, 420, 425, 426, 427, 437
Freud, Sigmund 459
Frothingham, Theodore 314, 315, 321, 322, 332, 356, 363
Fuller, Margaret 109
Fullerton, Morton 348*
Gaskell, Mrs Elizabeth 85, 154
Gay, Peter, Education of the Senses (1984) 395
geology 39–41
Gerald, Katherine Fullerton 348
Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook 469
Gilbert family 15, 62–4, 77, 78, 83
Harriet Gilbert (Harriet Cutler) 63, 64, 76
Martha Gilbert 63, 64, 69–70, 72, 75–6, 214, 233, 320
Mary Gilbert 63, 64, 72
see also Dickinson, Susan (née Gilbert)
Gilder, Richard Watson (editor) 251
Giselle (ballet, 1841) 98
glycerine as medicine 121–2, 216*
Gould, George 349
Graham, Martha 408
Graves, Harriet 257
Greenslet, Ferris (editor) 356–8
Gunn, Lucretia (grandmother of ED) 32, 132
Habegger, Alfred 8, 410, 432, 437, 438, 457, 462
My Wars are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (2001) 273, 419, 426, 429(6), 430(4), 432(2), 434(2), 435, 437, 438(2), 439, 441, 442(2), 445
Hale, Edward Everett 58–9, 146
Hall, Mary Lee 315–18, 319, 348, 349
Hamlin, Walcott 301, 302
Hamlin & Reilly 311
Hammond, J. C. 290, 292, 295, 296–7, 301–2, 307
Hampson, Alfred Leete 347, 359, 363, 371, 372, 373–4, 375, 383
death of (May 1952) 387
ED copyrights and 362, 363, 364, 369, 373
ED manuscript collection sale 374–7, 379–80, 381, 383
feud and 372–3, 381, 384, 392
Millicent Todd and 372–3, 381, 384, 385
Hampson, Mary (née Landis) 373–4, 375, 387, 388, 389*, 393, 397, 401, 403
Hardy, E. D. (editor) 270–1, 272, 280, 455
Harper (publishers) 351, 352, 356, 363, 364, 372, 381, 384, 390
Harper’s magazine 240
Hart, Ellen Louise 396, 436, 456, 469
Hart, Josephine 408, 412, 420, 470
Harte, Bret 99
Harvard Law School 74, 76, 310, 312, 370
Harvard University 101, 170, 311, 312, 336, 339, 370, 371, 376, 377, 386
ED publishing rights and 378, 390
see also Houghton Library, Harvard
Harvard University Press 388
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 52, 79, 171, 451
The Scarlet Letter (1851) 52, 143, 198, 243, 284, 329
herbarium of ED 29, 39, 71, 434
Herbert, George 402
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 87, 250, 276
Civil War and 147, 148
ED and 164, 207–8, 210, 228, 260–1, 273, 350
correspondence 112, 115, 138, 146–9, 206, 260–1, 273
ED’s poetry 115, 138, 146–9, 153, 155, 251, 258, 259, 262, 344, 401
face to face meetings 150–1, 154–5, 334, 404
publication of ED 254, 255, 257, 258, 259, 263, 266, 286, 290, 310, 344
Mabel Todd and 255, 258, 261, 263, 310
Hilder, Howard 337, 346
Hill, Alice (Alix) 314–15, 368, 460
Hills, Dwight 286, 289, 293, 300–1
Hills, Laura 274
Hippocrates 118
Hirschhorn, Dr Norbert 122
Hitchcock, Edward 39–41, 42
Hog Island, Maine (bought by Mabel Todd) 355, 389
Holland, Elizabeth (ED’s correspondent) 144, 149, 150, 158, 160, 163, 211, 214, 268, 372–3
Holland, Dr Josiah Gilbert (publisher) 87, 149–50, 163, 211, 234, 372–3, 445
Holland, Sophia (cousin of ED) 33, 59
Holmes, Jr, Oliver Wendell (jurist) 311–12
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (doctor and poet) 118
Home Magazine 273
The Homestead 3, 4, 7, 11, 16, 33, 80–1, 86, 393
Austin Dickinson’s adultery at 192–3, 197–8, 200–2, 204, 254, 304, 306, 312, 326–7, 401
ED’s health and 200, 216*, 221, 226, 227
Maggie Maher as witness 192, 200, 295–7, 338
cherrywood chest and table in 5, 16, 81, 124, 137, 158, 334, 404
manuscripts hidden at 319, 347–8
as museum 403–4
plan of 201
sale of (1916) 323, 333
Mabel Todd and 12–13, 14, 17, 186, 187, 192, 193, 203, 214, 402, 403
Hopkins, Gerard Manley 402
Hopkins, Justice John 300, 301, 302, 309–10
Houghton Library, Harvard 371, 373, 374, 376–8, 380, 381, 383–90, 393, 407
Mattie Dickinson and 407, 408–10
Online Archival Search Information System (OASIS) 411, 414
sources/resources in 407, 408–9(10), 410(6), 411(2), 412–15(30), 416, 417(3), 418, 425, 426, 427, 465
Houghton Mifflin 258, 260, 338, 340, 345, 347, 356–8, 359
Howe, Julia Ward 82–3, 150; see also Elaine Showalter
Howells, William Dean 234, 261
Hughes, Kathryn, The Victorian Governess (1993) 431
Humphrey, Jane (ED’s intimate) 36, 44, 48–9, 50, 56–7, 59, 61, 72, 77, 79–80, 112, 144
Hunt, Major 153, 350
Hunt, Helen (née Fiske, later Jackson; friend to ED) 87, 153–4, 207, 208, 211, 212, 250, 261, 350, 374
books by 207, 210
childhood of 34, 87, 153, 341
death of (1885) 216*, 250
Hutchinson, Anne 51–2
Ibsen, Henrik 134
Independent, New York 263
internet, scans of manuscripts 141, 396, 444
Emily Dickinson Correspondences 425
Jackson, Dr James (physician) 119–22, 123, 125, 129, 131
Jackson, William A. (curator) 371, 376–8, 379, 380, 383, 384–5, 386, 388–9, 467, 468
James, Alice 130, 262–3
James, Arthur Curtiss 337
James, Henry 17, 103, 163, 172, 176, 251, 311, 312, 348*, 440, 441, 447
Jenkins, Revd Mr 157, 181
Johnson, Thomas H. 389–90, 392, 411, 427, 436, 437(2), 444, 464
ED booklets and 410, 456
The Letters of Emily Dickinson, i—iii (ed. with Theodora Van Wagenen Ward, 1958) 411, 418, 426, 441, 446(2), 450
The Poems of Enuly Dickinson (ed. 3 vols, 1955) 392, 411, 425
Joyce, James, Ulysses (1922) 142
Kaufmann, Paula, The Sister (2006) 395–6
Keep, Wallace (related to Dickinsons) 367
Kempis, Thomas à, The Imitation of Christ (c. 1415–24) 85
Kimball, James 57
land trial (March—April 1898) 292–8, 301–11, 316, 317, 319, 323, 325, 329, 382, 389, 407
adultery trail 298, 301, 304, 306, 309, 311, 312, 314, 337–8
state Supreme Court appeal 311–12, 329
Lear, Edward 138
legend of ED 6, 7, 9, 158, 200–3
ancestry myths 31, 183, 184, 363
Mattie Dickinson and 340–2, 342*, 348–9, 357–8, 362, 363, 382
disappointed and lovelorn persona 7, 22, 77, 111, 113, 117, 268, 274, 350, 382
Wadsworth myth 95, 340–1, 342, 348, 349, 357, 358, 362, 390–1, 392
frail, shy and helpless persona 22, 114, 165, 260, 261, 275, 342, 348
naming of baby Bowles and 107, 342, 358
‘old-fashioned’ nature 14, 29, 77, 165, 404
quaint and wistful nature 77, 273, 358, 363, 391, 402
satirising of 165–6
Mabel Todd and 14, 261, 273, 275, 353–4, 362, 390–1
Millicent Todd and 382–3, 391–2
tyrannical father 349
Library of Congress 364, 371
Lind, Jenny 48, 268
Lindey, Alexander 364
Little, Brown (publisher) 273, 320
London Daily News 262
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 170
Longsworth, Polly 229, 420(2), 431, 449
Austin and Mabel (ed., 1984) 395, 413, 416, 420, 425, 454
Loomis, Eben Jenks (father of Mabel Todd) 169–70, 171, 173, 203, 219–20, 257, 327–8, 384
Loomis, Mary Alden Wilder (mother of Mabel Todd) 170–1, 173, 203, 219–20, 223, 232–3, 247, 248, 261, 323
Millicent Todd and 223, 327, 328, 384
Loomis, Nathan (Mabel Todd’s grandfather) 170
Lord, Otis Phillips (judge and suitor of ED) 159–68, 182, 202, 211, 261, 268, 332, 342, 390–1, 405
final illness and death of 212–14
Lowell, Amy 339–40, 343, 344, 362, 394
Lyell, Charles 40
Lyman, Joseph (Vinnie Dickinson’s suitor) 67–8
Lyon, Mary (founder of ED’s college) 42, 43–4, 45, 143, 206
Mack family 33, 80
MacLeish, Archibald 371
MacMurray, Rose, Afternoons with Emily (2007) 396
Maher, Margaret (servant to Dickinsons) 158, 215, 253–4, 288, 293, 301, 302, 319, 327
Austin Dickinson’s adultery and 192, 200, 295–7, 338
ED’s booklets and 158, 159, 298
witness deposition (May 1897) 295–8, 299, 301, 309, 338, 354, 407
Mahomet 138
Malcolm, Janet 421, 459
manuscripts and papers, see papers and manuscripts of ED
Marvel, Ik (Donald Grant Mitchell) 65, 66
‘Master’ letters of ED 26, 93–9, 102–5, 110–13, 146, 160, 164, 183, 402, 404
adulterous emotions in 6, 93, 103, 110, 143, 227
Samuel Bowles as candidate for ‘Master’ 95, 98–9, 102–3, 104, 107, 108, 109, 112, 113
‘Daisy’ role 29, 95–8, 102–3, 109, 110–11, 112, 164, 168, 273, 303
‘Master’ as fantasy 93, 94, 98, 104, 110, 113, 138, 151, 161
The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson (R. W. Franklin, ed., 1986) 411
poems 103–4, 260
secrecy theme 93–4, 107, 111, 113, 138
Charles Wadsworth fiction and 95, 340, 462
McCarthy, William (Bill) 369, 371–2, 373, 374–7, 379, 387–8
Mehta, Linn Cary 443
Mellanby, Dr Jane 440
Merrill, Harriet (ED’s schoolmate) 36, 49
The Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan, 1885) 290–1
Milinowsky, Marta 462
Mill, Harriet Taylor 154
Miller, Cristanne 430, 440, 441, 443
Mitchell, Katie 141–2, 407–8
… some trace of her (play, 2008) 407–8, 141, 444
Mizruchi, Susan 421, 450
Modernism 142, 347
Montague family 31–2, 132–3
Amy Montague (née Collier) 321, 323, 342, 359, 370
Gilbert Holland Montague 323, 359, 369–71, 377–80, 384, 385, 386–7, 388, 392, 467, 468
Millicent Todd and 371, 377, 378, 380–1, 385, 387, 390, 392
Harriet Montague (sister-carer to Zebina, below) 133
Irene Dickinson Montague (‘Aunt Montague’) 31, 132
Zebina Montague (cousin of ED) 31–2, 43, 45, 132–3, 159, 443
Morris, Leslie A. 411–12, 421, 465, 466(2), 467(3), 468(2)
Morrison, Samuel Eliot 342
Morrow, Mrs Dwight 350, 380
Mount Holyoke (South Hadley Seminary) 29, 37–8, 42–4, 45–7, 50, 51, 52, 53, 56
ED’s removal from due to ill health 44–5, 133
music and ED’s poetry 139–40, 407–8, 418, 443
Adams, John and ED 139
birdsong 155
dissonance 251
hymn 30, 136
improvisation 86, 140, 141, 142, 173, 261, 333
jazz and syncopation 139, 258
see also ED: piano of
New England Quarterly 122
New York Herald Tribune 358
New York Tribune 291
Newcomb, Simon 173, 175
Newman, Clara and Anna 89–90, 156, 215
Newton, Benjamin Franklin 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58–9, 60, 341
Nightingale, Florence 83, 433
Niles, Thomas 169, 208–10, 250, 251, 258–9, 260, 262, 270, 342, 457
Norcross family 24, 28, 46, 52, 56
Fanny Norcross (cousin of ED) 119, 127, 145, 150, 168, 219, 268–9, 456
Joel Norcross (uncle of ED) 54–5, 56
Lavinia Norcross (aunt of ED) 25, 34, 35, 55, 119, 375, 430
Loo Norcross (cousin of ED) 97, 119, 127, 130, 145, 150, 168, 219, 268, 368, 457
see also Dickinson, Emily (née Norcross, mother of ED)
Norwottucks (native Americans) 31
Oates, Joyce Carol 421
‘EDickinsonRepliLuxe’ (2008) 165–6, 415, 447
Observatory House (Amherst) 323, 334, 366
Open Me Carefully (eds Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith, 1998) 396–7
Palmer, Helen Humphrey 59
Palmer, Sabra (ED’s schoolmate) 36
Patmore, Coventry, The Angel in the House (1856) 88
papers and manuscripts of ED 5, 9, 14, 17
scans on internet 141, 396, 444; see also internet publication
Susan Dickinson collection 250, 263–6, 276, 320
publication of 331–3, 338–9, 365
Vinnie Dickinson collection 255–6, 257, 258, 259, 265–6, 270–2, 276, 319, 347–8, 357, 369, 393
at The Evergreens 320, 357, 373, 374–5, 381, 387–8, 389
Alfred Hampson’s sale of 374–7, 379–80, 381, 383
hidden at The Homestead 319, 347–8
Todd collection 293–4, 313, 344, 349, 351–3, 355, 363, 366, 371
given to Amherst College (1956) 392–3
hiding of (1898–1924) 313, 334, 344, 366
Houghton Library and 377, 378, 380, 381, 383–6, 387, 388–90
Letters (1931 revised edition) 351–3, 356–7
publication of (Bolts of Melody, 1945) 363, 364–5, 372
Pearl, Clara (daughter of Anna Newman) 409, 417
Pierce, Benjamin 170*
Pohl, Frederick A. and Vincent Yorke, Brittle Heaven (play, 1935) 350
Pollitt, Josephine 350
Porter, Hannah 46
Pound, Ezra 142
print culture and printing 140, 141, 142, 154, 259, 310, 396
publishing rights 6, 9, 14
Mattie Dickinson and 338–9, 352, 362, 364, 369, 381
Susan Dickinson and 265–6, 273, 320
Vinnie Dickinson and 270–2, 273, 279, 292*, 293–4, 338, 351–2, 352*, 363–4, 365, 381
final contract (1894) 270–2, 352, 352*, 363, 388, 389*
principle of exclusive rights 265, 266, 272, 290, 381
Alfred Hampson and 362, 363, 364, 369, 373, 387
Mary Hampson and 387–8, 389*
Harvard University and 378, 390
Mabel Todd and 270–2, 279, 292*, 293–4, 338, 352*, 363–4, 365, 389, 389*
draft contract (1894) 270–1, 351–2, 363
Millicent Todd signs over to Harvard 390
Puritanism 12, 21, 51–2, 79*, 144, 157
Pynchen, Sarah (ED’s schoolmate) 49
Quincy family 31*
Radcliffe College 147, 334
Raphael (artist) 118
Rector, Liam 422, 439
religion
Edward Dickinson and 15, 21, 30, 35, 143, 157
ED and 51, 52–3, 59, 61, 104, 143–4, 214, 405
the Bible 35, 59, 65, 97, 157, 237, 263
in childhood 28, 35, 38
at Mount Holyoke 43–4, 45–6, 51, 52, 431
evolutionary theory and 40
Monson Female Praying Circle 46, 52, 56
Puritanism 12, 21, 51–2, 79*, 144, 157
religious revival in Amherst (mid nineteenth century) 15, 21, 43, 45, 61, 63, 157
Republican Party 79
Rich, Adrienne 416, 462
Roberts Brothers (first publishers of ED, taken over by Little, Brown) 169, 207–8, 209–10, 250, 257, 258–60, 270, 320, 352, 352*
Letters (revised edition, 1931) 351–3, 356–7
Letters 265, 266–73, 274, 279, 304, 320
Poems: Third Series 285–6, 287, 290, 292, 306, 314, 317, 320
Rogers, Mrs Lloyd 275
Rollo the Dane (supposed ancestor) 31
Romantic subjectivity 129–30
Root, Abiah (ED’s early friend) 34, 36–8, 50, 54, 77, 131*, 149, 266, 268
Rosenbach, Dr Abraham Simon Wolf (dealer in mss) 375, 379
Rosenbach Company 374, 375, 379
Rossetti, Christina 262, 269–70
Rugg, Sarah Warner 58
Sand, George (Madame Dupin) 52
Saturday Review of Literature 348, 357
Sawyer, Elizabeth 356
Schreiner, Olive 52, 257, 455
Scott, Donald F. The History of Epileptic Therapy 130*
Scribner’s magazine 163, 234, 259
Seelye, Miss (housekeeper) 293, 300
Seelye, Elizabeth (Mrs Julius Seelye) 245
Seelye, President Julius 10, 242, 283, 316
Seneca Falls declaration (1848) 47
Sewall, Richard B. 394–5, 411, 413, 417, 423, 469
The Life of Emily Dickinson (2 vols, 1974, repr. 1994) 8, 391, 394–5, 422, 426, 469
Shakespeare, William 15, 50, 109, 139, 151, 225
plays 55, 66, 110, 118, 153, 204–5, 214, 227, 256 (Lady Macbeth: ‘Look like the innocent flower’), 262*, 267, 450, 454
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 104, 109–10
Showalter, Elaine 414, 422, 435, 442
Sieveking, Edward 117*, 122, 216*
Smith, Martha Nell 141, 396, 436, 444, 456, 469
Smith College 101, 191, 212, 302, 350, 373, 380
Soviet bloc dissident literature 142
Spaulding, Frances 469
Spaulding, Timothy 287–8, 289, 290, 292, 293, 304–5, 309, 311
Spofford, Elizabeth Prescott 154
Springfield Republican 16, 86, 87, 99, 109, 140, 146, 166, 212, 234, 309
ED’s obituary 250–1
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (women’s rights leader) 154
Stearns, Mrs Mary 10, 245, 300, 301, 310
Stearns, Professor 245
Stevenson, Juliet 408, 412
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 87
Sweetser family 219, 393–4
Swenson, Tree 422, 439
Taft, S. S. (lawyer) 306–7, 308, 309, 310
Taggard, Genevieve 349, 362
Temple, Minny (Henry James’s cousin) 172, 431
Tennyson, Alfred Lord 6*, 47, 198, 433
theatre involving ED 29, 141–2, 165, 350
Thoreau, Henry David 171
Tocqueville, Alexis de 28
Todd, David Peck 173–7, 180, 182, 184, 215, 223–4, 245, 282, 340
ambition and 10, 190, 198, 232, 240, 242, 244, 283
Amherst College observatory and 9–10, 175, 190–1, 222, 242, 283, 323, 334
Austin Dickinson and 190–1, 197, 220, 224, 229, 242, 280–1, 283, 284, 307
Vinnie Dickinson and 280, 299, 304
ED’s poetry and 257, 292, 320, 325
expeditions and 181, 239–40, 242, 247, 257, 258, 283, 286, 324, 334, 337
infidelity and promiscuity 174, 175, 176–7, 181, 192, 222, 247, 283, 324–5, 402–3
land transfer and (1885) 307, 308
land trial (March—April 1898) 294, 299, 300, 304, 308, 417
mental health problems 334, 336
physical appearance of 10, 174, 177, 336
sexual experimentation and 222–3, 229
Mabel Todd’s adultery and 190–1, 192, 197, 220, 222, 224, 229, 232, 244, 283–4, 295, 346
Mabel Todd’s lectures and 323, 324
Millicent Todd and 343, 346
Total Eclipses of the Sun (1894) 283
Todd, Mabel Loomis
ambition and 169, 172–3, 174, 177, 180, 231–2, 239, 240, 283–4; see also presentiment
arrival in Amherst (1881) 9–14, 134, 158, 169
in Boston (winter 1889–90) 247–8, 257–8, 287
Caro Andrews and 222–3
centenary celebrations (1930) and 351
character of 17, 175–6, 179, 346
death of (14 October 1932) 355, 362
diaries of 9, 197–8, 252, 253, 254, 281–2, 285
journals of 9, 12, 13, 14, 172, 175, 176–9, 193, 198–9, 222–3, 228, 233, 287, 324, 359, 364, 443, 448
Austin Dickinson and
abortion story 88, 134–5, 190–1, 234
Austin and Mabel (ed. Polly Longsworth, 1984) 395, 413, 416, 420, 425, 454
Austin’s health 135
Austin’s will and 242–3, 284–5
death of Austin and 280–2
early encounters 10, 12, 177, 179, 180, 181
feud caused by adultery 6, 9, 17–18, 197, 325, 365, 403
see also War between the Houses
land transfer, first (1885–6) 224–5, 228–9, 231, 294, 302, 307–8, 365, 395
land transfer, second 284–90, 292–3, 294, 295, 298, 299, 311
Mabel’s parents and 219–21, 223, 232–3, 248
plans to conceive a child (1888) 244–5, 249, 256
relationship, early months of (1882–3) 3, 13–14, 181–3, 184–93, 330
Rubicon moment (11 September 1882) 13, 181, 255, 330
relationship (1883–6 period) 14, 197, 198–202, 204–6, 214–15, 219–27, 235–8, 241, 279, 313–14
relationship (1886–95, after ED’s death) 228–30, 231–4, 238–49, 252–3, 254, 256, 258, 267, 280–4, 294–8
sexual relationship 192, 197, 222–3, 229, 241, 245, 258, 295–6, 297
see also The Homestead: Austin Dickinson’s adultery at
thoughts of fleeing west (1887, 1893) 243–4, 252–3, 282
Austin Dickinson and (correspondence) 185, 186, 187, 188, 243, 246–7, 282, 283, 394
caution in 183, 226
passion in 184, 190, 191, 232, 235, 282, 364
publishing of (1984) 200, 395
on Sue 185–6, 232, 235
on Gib Dickinson 354–5
Ned Dickinson and 178–9, 180, 181, 184, 185, 306
Mattie Dickinson and 178, 179, 181, 184, 185, 187–8, 330, 331, 338–9, 383
ED publications 338–40, 343–4, 356–7
Susan Dickinson and 10, 179–80, 184–9, 193, 316, 381, 391, 403
campaigns against Sue 231–41, 242, 248, 252, 256, 267, 282–3, 325, 355, 365, 381–3, 393–6, 422
friendship 11–12, 13, 160, 178, 179, 181, 184, 185
Mabel’s desire to be/replace Sue 180, 202, 238, 256, 267*
Mabel’s fantasy of Sue’s death 232, 237, 240, 241, 242, 244, 282–3
Mabel’s ‘presentiment’ 180, 231, 237, 238, 254
slanders against Sue 189, 192, 199, 205, 232–3, 237, 241, 325, 355, 363, 365, 395–6
Vinnie Dickinson and, see Dickinson, Lavinia (Vinnie, sister of ED): Mabel Todd and
Dickinson meadow and 228, 231, 239, 242–3, 284–9, 290, 292–8, 320
see also land trial (March—April 1898)
domesticity and 172, 215, 254, 284
ED and 12–13, 14, 18, 186, 201–6, 228
correspondence 203, 204, 205, 206, 218–19, 223, 225, 226–7, 230, 268
ED legend 14, 261, 273, 275, 353–4, 362, 390–1
ED’s poetry 14, 180, 203, 212
see also Todd, Mabel Loomis (as editor of ED)
ED’s rebuffs 203, 204, 205, 206, 218–19, 225, 226–7
lack of face-to-face meetings 202, 226, 228, 261, 357, 365–6
education of 171, 172
family background 169–71
Mary Lee Hall and 316
Thomas Wentworth Higginson and 255, 258, 261, 263, 310
houses in Amherst 10, 176, 215, 219, 220–1, 223, 224, 229, 232, 323, 366
see also The Dell (Todd house in Amherst)
journey to Japan (1887) 232, 239–41, 242, 247, 248
journey to Japan (1896) 282, 286, 288, 290, 337
marriage to David Peck Todd, see Todd, David Peck
music and art teaching by 181, 187, 245, 300
as New Woman 240, 255, 303, 323–4
in old age 334, 336–7, 339, 343–4, 345–7, 349, 351–5
painting of Indian Pipes 203, 204, 261, 272–3, 362
physical appearance of 10, 12, 171, 177, 245, 281, 282, 303, 337, 346
presentiment 10, 13, 174, 180, 231, 237, 238, 239, 249, 254, 284; see also ambition
public speaking/lectures 247–8, 261, 270, 273–4, 282, 310, 317, 320, 323–4
Todd, Mabel Loomis — continued
sexuality 171, 174, 175, 176, 177, 182, 192, 193, 197–8, 222–3, 224, 229, 449, 452
singing and artistic talents 11–12, 169, 171, 172, 181, 185, 189–90, 202, 247
stay in Washington (1883) 187–8
stroke and disability 325, 334, 337, 344, 354, 360
theatricality 228, 231, 236, 258, 281, 282, 323–4; spotlight 403
Todd-Bingham archive 394–5, 403, 407
tour of Europe (1885) 223–4, 231, 237
writing and 175, 240, 251, 261, 266, 269, 270, 273, 292, 352–3
Total Eclipses of the Sun (1894) 283
Todd, Mabel Loomis (as editor of ED) 14
ED’s poems 255–61, 263, 265, 337–8, 356, 364, 403, 404
copyright and royalty issues 290, 292*, 293–4, 295, 364, 365
Poems (12 November 1890) 258–63, 306
Poems: Second Series (1891) 266, 273, 306
Poems: Third Series (1896) 285–6, 287, 290, 292, 306, 314, 317, 320
possession of manuscripts 293–4, 313, 334, 344, 349, 351–3, 355, 363, 366, 371
see also papers and manuscripts of ED: Todd collection
preface to Poems: Second Series 266, 273
publicity and promotion 261, 273–4, 310, 317, 320
refusal to continue editing (1898) 316–17
tampering with booklets 267, 396, 456
Millicent Todd and 257, 356
transcription of poems 249, 252–3, 254–5, 256, 257, 292, 306, 310
financial aspects 270–2, 292–3, 292*, 294, 295, 354, 363–4
land trial (March—April 1898) 292–3, 294, 295–6, 298, 306, 310, 407
Letters 265, 266–73, 304, 305, 320, 353–4
copyright and royalty issues 270–2, 279, 293–4, 338, 351–2, 352*, 363–4, 365, 389, 389*
Millicent Todd and 356
omission of Susan Dickinson 268, 353–4, 366, 383
publicity and promotion 270
revised edition (1931) 351–3, 356–7
tampering with letters 267, 383
Todd, Millicent (later Bingham; daughter of Mabel Todd)
Amherst College and 392–3
childhood of 177–8, 180, 223, 229–30, 254, 257, 261, 270, 281, 326–9, 345–7, 382, 453
conception of 175–6, 182
Austin Dickinson and 180, 229–30, 254, 326, 329, 346
Mattie Dickinson and 327, 341–2, 343, 382, 393–4
Susan Dickinson and 355, 361, 363, 365, 381–3, 389, 391–3
Vinnie Dickinson and 326–7, 367, 382
ED legend and 382–3, 391–2
ED publications and
Ancestors’ Brocades: The Début of Emily Dickinson (1945) 356, 363, 365–8
Bolts of Melody (1945) 363, 364–5, 372
Emily Dickinson’s Home: Letters of Edward Dickinson and his family (1955) 8, 381–2, 384–5, 390, 391–2, 394
Letters (1931, revised edition) 351–3, 356–7
A Revelation (1954) 390, 391
ED’s manuscripts (hidden 1898–1924) and 334, 344, 349, 351–3, 355, 356–7, 366, 371
given to Amherst College (1956) 392–3
Houghton Library and 377, 378, 380, 381, 383–6, 387, 388–90
publication of (Bolts of Melody) 363, 364–5, 372
education of 328, 329, 334, 336
feud and 351, 355–6, 359–62, 365–7, 381–2, 383, 389, 393–5
re-igniting of (1922–4) 340, 341–2, 343–4
First World War and 334–5
Mary Loomis and 223, 327, 328, 384
marriage 335–6, 343, 355–6, 359, 364, 381, 384–6, 388, 389, 393
Gilbert Montague and 371, 377, 378, 380, 381, 385, 387, 390, 392
mother’s old age and 334, 337, 343–4, 345–7, 349, 351–5
physical appearance of 177, 328, 346
public speaking and 356, 371
sexuality 328–9, 334, 335, 347
signs over ED rights to Harvard 390
David Todd and 343, 346
Mabel Todd’s adultery and 229–30, 254, 326–7, 328, 329, 330, 345–6, 359, 364, 366, 383
Mabel Todd’s attempts to abort 175, 234
as Mabel Todd’s champion 230, 267*, 317, 325, 344, 351, 355–6, 359–62, 363–8, 372, 381–3, 402–3
Todd-Bingham archive 394–5, 403, 407
working life 329, 335, 344
writing and 230, 344, 351, 356
Tolstoy, Leo, Anna Karenina (1878) 284
Tracy, Sarah (ED’s schoolmate) 36, 49
Turner, Kate Scott (later Anthon; SHD’s and ED’s friend) 86–7, 101–2, 146, 152–3, 333, 436
Twain, Mark, Huckleberry Finn (1884) 243
Untermeyer, Louis 348, 357
Utica Female Seminary (Miss Kelly’s) 62, 86, 102
Van Vranken, Sophia Arms 62, 83
Van Wagenen, Bleecker 211
Vassar College 302, 329, 462
Vedder, Elihu 262
Vendler, Helen 423, 428, 435, 439(2), 440
volcanoes 7, 16, 29, 39, 40–1, 55, 105, 115, 138, 168, 190, 260
‘Master’ letters and 93–4, 97, 107
‘reticent volcano’ 107, 119, 124
Wadsworth, Revd Charles 79, 95, 353, 362
romantic myth 95, 340–1, 342, 348, 349, 357, 358, 362, 390–1, 392
Wald, Jane 448
War between the Houses 17–18, 31, 230, 275, 276, 289, 392, 402, 403
Bill of Complaint 290, 292–8, 320
Mattie Dickinson and 325, 326, 338–9, 340–4, 345, 347–9, 350–1, 356–9, 362–3
ED and 197, 200–6, 216*, 218–19, 224–7
Alfred Hampson and 372–3, 381, 384, 392
land trial (March—April 1898) 292–8, 301–11, 316, 317, 319, 323, 325, 329, 382, 389, 407
adultery trail 298, 301, 304, 306, 309, 311, 312, 314, 337–8
state Supreme Court appeal 311–12, 329
publishing rights and, see publishing rights
re-igniting of (1922–4) 338–40, 341–2, 343–4
slander suit (1897–8) 299–301, 313
Mabel Todd/Austin Dickinson adultery and 6, 9, 17–18, 325, 365, 403
Mabel Todd’s campaigns against Susan Dickinson 231–41, 242, 248, 252, 256, 267, 282–3, 325, 355, 365, 381–3, 393–6
Millicent Todd and 325, 326, 340, 341–2, 343–4, 351, 355–6, 365–7, 381–3, 389, 393–5
Ward, M. (pop star) 408, 443
Ward, Theodora (granddaughter of the Hollands) 372*
Ward, William Hayes (publisher) 263, 264–6
Warren, Robert Penn 371
Webster, Noah 32
Werner, Marta L. 446
Wharton, Edith 348*
Whicher, George Frisbie 362, 363, 381
Whitman, Walt 54, 150, 170
Whitney, Maria 101, 109, 145, 211–12, 268
Wilder, Charles 323
Wilder, Grandma 170–1, 173, 191, 220–1, 223, 232–3, 254
Williams, Dr Henry Willard 126, 127–8, 129, 130, 442
Williston Seminary 67
Wilson, Frances 391, 468
Wineapple, Brenda 147, 435, 444, 455
Wollstonecraft, Mary 154
women
Edward Dickinson’s views on 25, 26, 42, 48
double lives ands 8, 93–4, 98
epilepsy and 119, 122*, 130–1, 138
female friendship 72, 79, 92
higher education and 29, 37, 39–40, 42–4, 52, 329
improved prospects for 26, 29, 52, 172
marriage and 28, 82–3, 88, 89, 283
New Woman 172, 240, 255, 303, 323–4
suffrage 147, 150
teacher’s posts and 48–9, 64–5
traditional models of womanhood 23–6, 29–30, 47–8, 52, 88, 98, 122*, 130, 165, 248, 348, 402
women’s movement 47, 55, 154, 324
writing and poetry 52, 82–3, 84, 85–6, 108, 109, 149–50, 154, 269, 290–1
Wood, Abby (ED’s schoolmate) 36, 61
Woodbridge, Miss Rebecca (schoolteacher) 37
Woolf, Virginia 141, 318*
Woolson, Constance Fenimore 154
Wordsworth, Dorothy and William 165, 391, 434
Wroe, Ann 109–10
Yale University 62, 101, 351, 371, 394, 407, 427
Yeats, W. B. 82, 97, 435