PRIMARY SOURCES
The main repository of Dickinson family papers, as well as Dickinson’s poems, letters, books, memorabilia and furniture, is the Houghton Library, Harvard University. There is another major Dickinson collection in the Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College. The main repository for Mabel Loomis Todd papers is the archives of Sterling Library at Yale University. This includes papers of William Austin Dickinson and of Mabel Todd’s daughter, Millicent Todd Bingham, as well as the typescript record of the court case that Lavinia Dickinson brought against Mabel Loomis Todd in 1898. An off-the-record but influential deposition in the run-up to the trial, by Maggie Maher, servant to the Dickinson sisters, is in the legal archives in Worcester, Massachusetts. Jones Library in Amherst specialises in the history of the town. Susan Dickinson’s papers, and those of her surviving children, Ned Dickinson and Martha Dickinson Bianchi, are at the John Hay Library of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Bianchi’s revealing correspondence with her publisher, Houghton Mifflin, is in the Houghton Library, as is the fascinating correspondence to do with the Library’s acquisition of the Dickinson Collection, a story in which the old tensions between adversarial camps continued to function.
The sources go beyond manuscripts and print, since the poet has an impact on music, dance and theatre, including theatre director Katie Mitchell’s innovative production of … some trace of her, a play inspired by The Idiot by Dostoyevsky and using poems by Dickinson in the National Theatre (Cottesloe), London (2008); Martha Graham’s choreography and performance of Letter to the World (1940, in the archives of the Martha Graham Center of Dance Records at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at the Lincoln Center, New York); John Adams’s eerie choral setting for ‘Because I could not stop for Death’ in Harmonium; and the rare transparency of Juliet Stevenson’s reading on stage at the British Library, recorded on a CD accompanying a selection of Dickinson’s poems in Josephine Hart’s Catching Life by the Throat (London: Virago, 2006; NY: Norton, 2007).
Songwriters are influenced by Dickinson. British star Pete Doherty picks up lines from ‘I took one Draught of Life — / I’ll tell you what I paid —’ which he discusses in ‘Emily Dickinson? She’s hardcore’, an extraordinary interview in the Guardian (3 Oct 2006). Carla Bruni sings (in English) ‘I felt my life with both my hands/To see if it was there —’ in her album No Promises (2008). Californian M. Ward expresses an affinity for Dickinson’s combination of familiarity with the otherworldly. See interview in Relix music magazine (6 Jan 2009) www.relix.com/Features/Interviews/SPOTLIGHT%3A_M._WARD_200901063594.html
Abbot, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), Mother at Home: Principles of Maternal Duty (1833). Copies in Emily Dickinson Room, Houghton Library; in the Mudd Library, Yale: Lf30 833ab WB 7459; and in Library of Congress
Adams, Henry, druggist and apothecary, Amherst, record of prescriptions (1882–5). Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
Bennett, the Revd John, Letters to a Young Lady (1789; repr. NY, 1824). Copy in Emily Dickinson Room, Houghton Library
Bianchi, Martha Gilbert Dickinson, Papers. Houghton: MS Am 1118.96
———, Papers, John Hay Library, Brown University
———, Scrapbook, with Susan Dickinson’s stories. John Hay Library, Brown University: St Armand Collection: 126. Available in Dickinson Electronic Archives (below)
———, 318 letters to Theodore Longfellow Frothingham. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.96
———, The Cossack Lover (NY: Duffield, 1911). Copy in Library of Congress. She also published Russian Lyrics and Cossack Songs
———, ‘Letters of Emily Dickinson’, Atlantic Monthly (Jan 1915). Copy in Jones Library
———, 258 letters to publisher, Houghton Mifflin (1924–42). Houghton: bMS Am 1925 (197)
———, Correspondence concerning publication of Emily Dickinson. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.97–1118.98 nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou02016
———, Correspondence with William McCarthy (1930–43). Houghton: bMS Am 1118.97–1118.98 (123)
———, Correspondence with Amherst attorney Henry Field. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.97–1118.98 (79)
———, Correspondence with Amy Angell Collier Montague (1900–43). Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library: Montague-Collier Family Papers
———, Correspondence with Ned Dickinson. Hay Library, Brown University
———(ed.), The Single Hound (1914; repr. London: Hesperus Press, 2005)
———, The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924). Yale archives has Millicent Todd Bingham’s copy with marginalia: ‘Bosh!’ and ‘ugh’ and ‘oh, yeah?’
———, Emily Dickinson: Face to Face: Unpublished Letters with Notes and Reminiscence, with Foreword by Alfred Leete Hampson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932)
Bingham, Millicent Todd, Papers. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library http://mssa.library.yale.edu/findaids/stream.php?id=mss&colNum=0496&xml-file=mssa.ms.0496d.xml&srch=bingham%20todd&sch=ead
———, Ancestors’ Brocades: The Literary Début of Emily Dickinson (NY: Harper, 1945)
———, Emily Dickinson: A Revelation (NY: Harper, 1954)
———, Emily Dickinson’s Home: Letters of Edward Dickinson and Family (NY: Harper, 1955; repr. Dover, 1967)
———, Correspondence with Amy Lowell. Houghton: bMS Lowell 19 (95) and 19.1 (99)
———, Letters to Theodora Ward, granddaughter of Dickinson correspondents, Dr and Mrs Holland (1945–54). Houghton: *7OM-33
——— with Raoul Blanchard (Professor of Geography, University of Grenoble), A Geography of France (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1919)
——— (trans. from the French), Principles of Human Geography by P. Vidal de La Blache (London: Constable, 1926)
———, Autobiographical typescripts. Yale: Bingham Papers, mainly box 46.
———, ‘Notes for Autobiography’. Yale: Bingham Papers. Cited in Richard B. Sewall, Life of Emily Dickinson, i, 294–301. These rather scrappy ‘Notes’ do not indicate the abundance of these typescripts
———, Correspondence with Mrs George E. Pearl (Clara Pearl), daughter of Anna Newman (Mrs George H. Carleton), who lived at The Evergreens in her youth. Yale: box 84, f.258a, together with letter from Mrs Pearl to Mrs Bingham (15 Sept 1932) ‘boiling’ with animosity towards Martha Dickinson Bianchi. The date is a month before the attack of ‘apoplexy’ that killed Mabel Loomis Todd
———, ‘Notes taken during the talk with my father’ (typed Oct 1967, from notes she dates on TS as 29 Sept—3 Oct 1933, but the original notes go back to 1927, the year she began to abandon her academic career and join her parents’ camp). Yale: box 47, f.14. David Todd’s striking memories of the first transcriptions of Dickinson’s poems in the late 1880s and early 1890s
———, Letters to Gilbert Montague (1945–55). Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library: Montague-Collier Family Papers, box 1
———, Article on Millicent Todd Bingham in Current Biography (June 1961), 10–12. Copy in Yale: Bingham Papers, box 46, f.1
———, Four tapes (3 May 1957; Dec 1958; 17 June 1963; and 31 May 1964). Historical Sound Recordings, Music Library, Sterling Library, Yale
Bowles, Samuel, 156 letters to Austin and Susan Dickinson. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.8
———, ‘An annotated calendar of Samuel Bowles’s letters to Austin and Susan Dickinson’, by Alfred Habegger and Nellie Habegger, Emily Dickinson Journal, 11/2 (Fall 2002), 1–47. Dating and excerpts.
Cutter, Calvin, Anatomy and Physiology (repr. Boston: Mussey, 1854). Dickinson’s textbook at Mount Holyoke. Copy in Radcliffe Science Library, Oxford
Dickerman, Elizabeth (of Amherst and Smith College class of 1894), ‘Portrait of Two Sisters: Emily and Lavinia Dickinson’, Smith Alumnae Quarterly, 45/2 (Feb 1954), 79. Copy at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Dickinson Papers, including Family Papers. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95. Arranged by first line.
Dickinson library. Emily Dickinson Room, Houghton. This library brings together all Dickinson-owned books, belonging to both households, the Homestead and The Evergreens.
Dickinson, Edward (the poet’s father), essay signed ‘Coelebs’ (from Hannah More’s bestseller, Coelebs in Search of a Wife), for the New England Enquirer. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95
———, Letters in Bingham, Emily Dickinson’s Home, above
———, A Poet’s Parents: The Courtship Letters of Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson, ed. Vivian R. Pollak (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988)
Dickinson, Edward (Ned, the poet’s nephew), ‘“Your Prodigal”: Letters from Ned Dickinson, 1879–1885’, put together with commentary by Barton Levi St Armand, New England Quarterly, 61/3 (1988), 358–80
———, 125 letters to parents; also, letters to his sister when feud began. Hay Library, Brown University
———, 79 letters to Theodore Longfellow Frothingham. Houghton: MS Am 1996
———, Letter to his aunt, Lavinia Dickinson (1896). Houghton: MS Am 1118.96
Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth, Poems, ed. Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Boston: Roberts Bros, 1890). Copy in Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Accession no: 42563. Location: E-3 87 E
———, Poems: Second Series, ed. Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd (Roberts Bros, 1891). Pierpont Morgan Library. Accession no: 42120. Location as above.
———, Poems: Third Series, ed. Mabel Loomis Todd (Roberts Bros, 1896). Pierpont Morgan Library. Accession: 42121. Location as above
———, ‘Emily Dickinson’s Letters’ by T. W. Higginson (Atlantic Monthly, Oct 1891) in Robert N. Linscott, ed., Selected Poems & Letters of Emily Dickinson (1959)
———, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntingdon Dickinson, ed. Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith (Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 1998)
———, Further Poems of Emily Dickinson: Withheld from Publication by her sister Lavinia, edited by her niece Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson (Boston: Little, Brown, 1929). A limited edition of 465 copies
———, Bolts of Melody, ed. Mabel Loomis Todd and Millicent Todd Bingham (NY: Harper, 1945)
———, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, 3 vols, ed. Thomas H. Johnson (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1955). Little, Brown’s one-volume reading edition repr. as The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (London: Faber, 1976, repr. 2003)
———, Final Harvest, Thomas H. Johnson’s selection (Boston: Little, Brown, 1961)
———, The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, 2 vols, ed. R. W. Franklin (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981)
———, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition, 3 vols, ed. R. W. Franklin (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998)
———, Emily Dickinson’s Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing: An Experimental Edition of Emily Dickinson’s Drafts and Fragments, ed. Marta L. Werner (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c. 1995). Associated with the poet’s Otis Lord correspondence
———, The Letters of Emily Dickinson, i—iii, ed. Thomas H. Johnson and Theodora Van Wagenen Ward (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1958)
———, Concordance to the Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. S. P. Rosenbaum (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1964)
———, Concordance to the Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. Cynthia MacKenzie with Penny Gilbert (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2000)
———, manuscript letters 537,539,591,948 to Maria Whitney, whose full texts were excised by Mabel Loomis Todd, in accord with Whitney’s wish, in the 1894 edition of Dickinson letters. The excised texts were used for the supposedly complete Johnson edition of 1958 before the manuscripts came to light in the Houghton Library. Mabel Loomis Todd printed the last of these excised bits, on Bowles’s light-giving glance, as a detached and unidentified fragment
———, Guide to Houghton collection of letters http://oasis.harvard.edu/html/hou00202.html
———, The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson, ed. R. W. Franklin (Amherst: Amherst College Press, 1986). A few lines from one of the three letters (mis-dated as 1885) had appeared in Mabel Loomis Todd’s selection of 1894. Millicent Todd Bingham was the first to publish these letters in Emily Dickinson’s Home (1955), 422–32
———, Calling card. Jones Library
———, Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Facsimile Edition, Foreword by Leslie A. Morris, Preface by Judith Farr, Introduction by Richard B. Sewall (Cambridge, MA: Harvard/Belknap Press, 2006). Leslie A. Morris gives an authoritative, succinct and well-written history of the Dickinson Papers and how they came to Harvard
———, Early reviews. Press clippings. Yale: Mabel Loomis Todd Papers, 496C, series VII, box 101, f.242
———, ‘The Likenesses of Emily Dickinson’, listed with commentary by Louise B. Graves, Harvard Library Bulletin, vol. 1/no. 2 (spring 1947), 248–51. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.99b (23)
———, Selected poems, read to perfection by Juliet Stevenson, originally at the British Library, recorded on CD accompanying Josephine Hart’s Catching Life by the Throat: How to Read Poetry and Why: Poems from Eight Great Poets (London: Virago, 2006; NY: Norton, 2007)
———, American Religious Poems: An Anthology, ed. Harold Bloom with Jesse Zuba (NY: Library of America, 2006)
———, American Poetry: The Nineteenth-Century, ii. ed. John Hollander (NY: Library of America, 1993)
———, Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes (London: Faber, 2001)
———, Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry (EDC), ed. Martha Nell Smith and Lara Vetter, with Louise Hart as consulting editor (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008). 73 poems and letters from the poet’s correspondence with Susan Dickinson www.rotunda.upress.virginia.edu
The Dickinson Electronic Archives (DEA) (1994 to the present) www.emilydickinson.org. This is a critical edition of select Dickinson texts, with EDC as part of it
Dickinson, Emily Norcross (poet’s mother). Letters. Houghton: Dickinson Family Papers
———, A Poet’s Parents: The Courtship Letters of Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson, ed. Vivian R. Pollak (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988)
Dickinson, Lavinia, Diary (1851). Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95
———, Letter (23 Jan 1885) to cousins Clara Newman Turner and Anna Newman Carleton about her sister’s health. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.7
———, Letters to Thomas Niles. Emily Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Archives
———, Letters to Mabel Loomis Todd. Yale: box 101, f.235
———, Bill of Complaint against the Todds. Jones Library. Testimony, Dickinson v. Todd (Feb 1898). Houghton: MS Am 2521. Transcript of Dickinson v. Todd Trial. Yale: Todd Papers, 496C, series VII, box 101, f.239
———, Oral memories of Dickinson (n.d.), recorded by Mabel Loomis Todd. Yale: box 82, f.402.
Dickinson, Samuel Fowler (the poet’s grandfather), Oration at Dartmouth College (26 Aug 1795). Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95
Dickinson, Susan Huntingdon Gilbert (friend of the poet’s youth, her prime reader, and sister-in-law), Writings www.emilydickinson.org/susan/table_of_contents.html
———, Correspondence with Emily Dickinson. Digitalised in EDC
———, Papers. Hay Library, Brown University. Includes microfilm of selected papers. F5890 HAY
———, Obituary (1913) in the Springfield Republican newspaper. Copies in Houghton and Amherst College; also in the Dickinson Electronic Archives www.emilydickinson.org/susan/table_of_contents.html
———, Correspondence with Kate Scott Turner Anthon. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95
———, ‘Annals of the Evergreens’ (1892). TS memoir. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95. Also DEA www.emilydickinson.org/susan/table_of_contents.html
———, ‘Society at Amherst Fifty Years Ago’. TS memoir. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95. Also DEA www.emilydickinson.org/susan/table_of_contents.html
———, Letter (1888) to husband Austin Dickinson. Yale: Mabel Loomis Todd Papers, 496C, series VII, box 97, f.166
———, Letters to T. W. Higginson. Emily Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Archives
———, Letters to William Hayes Ward. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95. Amongst her writings in DEA: www.emilydickinson.org/susan/table_of_contents.html
Dickinson, William Austin, Recollections of Emily Dickinson. Yale. Printed by Sewall, i, 222–3
———, Drafts of letters to Susan Gilbert. Dickinson Family Papers. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95
———, Diaries (1880–90, though no diaries survive for 1885 and 1887). Yale: Mabel Loomis Todd Papers, series VII, box 101, f.244, 245; box 102, f.246, 247, 251, 252, 253
———, Statements to Mabel Todd about his wife Susan Dickinson. Yale: Mabel Loomis Todd Papers, 496C, series VII, box 103, f.259
———, Letter to Mrs Loomis. Yale: Mabel Loomis Todd Papers, box 97, f.155
———, Letters to Mabel Loomis Todd. Yale: 496C, series VII, box 94
———, Austin and Mabel: The Amherst Affair & Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd, ed. Polly Longsworth (NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984)
———, Letters to T. W. Higginson and to E. D. Hardy of Roberts Brothers. Emily Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Archives
———, Letter to J. Clark (8 Aug 1893) about settling in Omaha. Yale: Todd Papers, 496C, box 97, folder 157
———, letters to David Todd. Yale: Mabel Loomis Todd Papers, box 97, f.161–5
Dickinson Family, Papers, library and furniture from Emily Dickinson’s room. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95. The need for preservation means that scholars can no longer examine the actual books, but in 1990, before the embargo, I did see a number of these, including the Dickinsons’ Brontë collection and Emily Dickinson’s geology textbook (see Hitchcock, below) with its diagrams of volcanoes
———, Dickinson Family contracts and correspondence between the Dickinson family and Roberts Brothers, Little, Brown and Company, and Houghton Mifflin and Company, concerning publication of the poet (1890s–1960s). Houghton: bMS Am 1118.18
———, Pre-1915 floor plans of the Homestead. Amherst College Archives
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (trans. David McDuff), The Idiot (1868; London: Penguin Classics, 2004)
Field, Henry (attorney), Letters to MDB. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.97–1118.98 (79)
Hampson, Alfred Leete and Mary Landis Hampson, Correspondence, mostly with William McCarthy, to do with The Evergreens and the Dickinson Papers (1940s–1980s). Houghton: bMS Am 1923 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00588 (Some of McCarthy’s side to the correspondence is in Hay Library, Brown University: Evergreens Collection, box 4)
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Letters to Lavinia Dickinson, Thomas Niles and Mabel Loomis Todd. Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Archives
———, ‘Emily Dickinson’s Letters’, Atlantic Monthly (Oct 1891)
Hill, Alice (‘Alix’) Barton (later Harris), Letter to Frothingham (1898). Houghton: MS Am 1996
Hitchcock, Edward, Elementary Geology (1840, repr. 1842). Emily Dickinson Room, Houghton
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, ‘James Jackson: A Biographical Sketch’ (1876). Countway Library of the History of Medicine, Harvard: B MS b6.1
Houghton Library. Search the Online Archival Search Information System (OASIS) for online Dickinson material and family photographs at http://oasis.harvard.edu/html/hou00202.html
Houghton Mifflin (publishers), Correspondence with Martha Dickinson Bianchi, 1923–43. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.97–1118.98 (11)
Howe, Julia Ward, Passion Flowers (first collection of poems in 1854, discussed by Elaine Showalter, A Jury of Her Peers, below)
Jackson, Helen Hunt, née Fiske, Mercy Philbrick’s Choice (Boston: Roberts, 1876)
———, Ramona (1884; repr. NY: Signet Classics, 2002)
———, A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government’s Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (Harper, 1881; repr. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995)
———, Report on the Condition and Needs of the Mission Indians of Southern California (1883) www.archive.org/…/conditionofmissi00duborich/conditionofmissi00duborich_djvu.txt
Jackson, James (Dickinson’s Boston physician), Letters to a Young Physician (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1855)
———, Another Letter to a Young Physician (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1861)
———, Papers. ‘Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine’: MS notes on Jackson’s lectures, copied by Oliver Wendell Holmes as a medical student in 1831–3. Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard
———, Papers. ‘Memoria Medica’ (MS casebook). Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine: f1.K.54
———, Papers. ‘Notes on Medicine’ MS. Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine: f1.K.53
———, Papers. ‘Notes on Clinical Medicine’ MS. Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine: f1.K.156
———, Prescription for Emily Dickinson. Attached to letter she sent to her brother asking for twice the amount. Photostat at Houghton: bMS Am 1118.99c (27 Dec 1853). MS in Special Collections, Amherst College Library
Jackson, William A. (Librarian of the Houghton Library, Harvard). Letters to Gilbert H. Montague (1943–56). Two files of their correspondence (c. 270 letters). Houghton Library Office
James, Alice, The Diary of Alice James (repr. Penguin, 1987)
Keep, Wallace, ‘Recollections of Lavinia Dickinson’. Yale: Bingham Papers, box 84, f.233
Lord, Otis Phillips, ‘Memoir of Asahel Huntington’, Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, 11 (July, Oct 1871)
———, Letters, obituary and documents relating to Judge Lord, also his will. Amherst College Archives: MS 761, box 9. An excellent memorial of Lord by the Bar of the Commonwealth and of the Supreme Court in Boston is in box 9, f.53.
Lowell, Amy, Correspondence with Mabel Loomis Todd and Millicent Todd Bingham. Houghton: bMS Lowell 19
Maher, Margaret (Maggie), servant to the Dickinson sisters, TS deposition (1897) preceding Dickinson v. Todd trial. Legal depository, Worcester, MA: Todd v. Dickinson, file no. 193, Location: EB101 002-008-002-005/box 30782, in the series of Equity File Papers. Included in these papers are the testimonies of L. D. Hill and Jane Seelye
McCarthy, William (Bill), Jr. Letters to the Hampsons at The Evergreens. Hay Library, Brown University: Evergreens Collection, box 4, f.14 (for inventory) and mainly f.16. (Hampsons’ letters to McCarthy are in Houghton: bMS Am 1923)
———, Correspondence with Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1930–43). Houghton: bMS Am 1118.97–1118.98 (123)
Minot, George R., ‘James Jackson as a Professor of Medicine’, New England Journal of Medicine, 208/5 (2 Feb 1933)
Montague, George (compiler, first cousin to Edward Dickinson, Sr), History and Genealogy of the Montague Family (Amherst: Press of E. J. Williams, 1886), revised by William Lewis Montague after a gathering of the Montagues in Amherst in 1883. Copy in Library of Congress: microfiche 1018/G292
Montague, Zebina (the poet’s ‘Cousin Zebina’), untitled autobiography (1852), written for the twentieth reunion of his Amherst class of 1832. A long extract is printed in the family History above: entry no. 2650. The compiler obviously favoured his brother, since other entries are short and without such attachments
Montague-Collier Family Papers (Gilbert Holland Montague and Amy Angel Collier Montague). Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library
Montague, Gilbert H., Fourteen letters to Alfred Leete Hampson (1943–51). Houghton: bMS Am 1923 (14)
———, Fifty-two letters to Mary Hampson (1948–60). Houghton: bMS Am 1923 (15)
———, Letters to William A. Jackson (1943–56). Two files (c. 270 letters), Houghton Library Office. See Jackson, above
———, Correspondence regarding Emily Dickinson. New York Public Library: Manuscripts and Archives, Montague Papers, box 2
———, Letter to Millicent Todd Bingham (1955). New York Public Library: Manuscripts and Archives, Montague Papers, box 1
Niles, Thomas (Dickinson’s first publisher) and Roberts Brothers colleagues, Letters to Mabel Loomis Todd and David Peck Todd. Emily Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Archives
Norcross, Frances (Fanny) L., Seven letters to Mabel Loomis Todd (1894). Emily Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Archives: Todd 329, box 18, f.16
Norcross, Lavinia (maternal aunt of Emily Dickinson), Poem addressed to her sister (Emily Dickinson’s mother): ‘Sister! Why that burning tear’, after the death of their mother. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95 (228)
Oates, Joyce Carol, ‘EDickinsonRepliLuxe’ in Wild Nights!: Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway (NY: HarperCollins, 2008)
Pohl, Frederick and Vincent York, Brittle Heaven: a drama in three acts (1935). See York, below
Pollitt, Josephine, Emily Dickinson: The Human Background of her Poetry (NY: Harper, 1930). Copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Putnam, James Jackson, A Memoir of Dr. James Jackson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906). Copy in Countway Medical Library, Harvard. Digitalised
Quain, Richard (ed.), Dictionary of Medicine (1883). Copy owned by Dr Bigelow, who attended the Dickinsons, is in Jones Library
Rich, Adrienne, ‘Vesuvius At Home’ in On Lies, Secrets, Silence (NY: Norton, 1979; London: Virago, 1980). Originally a Commencement address at Smith College. A poet’s insight into a great predecessor
Root Abiah P. (later Mrs Strong), Three letters to Mabel Loomis Todd (1892–3). Emily Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections: Todd 334, box 18, f.21
Sieveking, Sir Edward Henry, On Epilepsy and Epileptiform Seizures: Their Causes, Pathology, and Treatment (London: John Churchill, 1858)
St Armand, Barton Levi, Collection of Dickinson Family Papers (c. 1851–1908). Hay Library, Brown University, including a vast number of items of Dickinson family memorabilia from The Evergreens
Strachan, Pearl, Interview with Martha Dickinson Bianchi at The Evergreens. Christian Science Monitor, Boston (4 Sept 1940)
Taggard, Genevieve, The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson (NY: Knopf, 1930). Copy in Bodleian Library, Oxford
Todd, David Peck, Papers. Yale: MS 496B, series VII http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/fedoragsearch/rest?collection
———, Diary (1886). Yale: box 108, f.51
———, ‘A Line A Day’ diaries (1893, 1894, 1895). Yale: box 108, f.55
———, Autobiographical Writings. Yale: box 110, f.67.
Todd, Mabel Loomis, Papers. Yale. http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0496c
———, Lock of hair. Yale
———, Signature as ‘Mabel Loomis Dickinson’ with photograph. Yale: 496C, series VII, box 103, f.262
———, Unfinished TS autobiography. Yale: 496C, series VII, box 116, f.454, and autobiographical writings c. 1930: box 116, f.456
———, ‘Millicent’s Life’. Yale: 496C, series III, boxes 46, 47, 48, f.49–65
———, Reminiscences in note form (n.d.). Yale: subject files: WAD, box 103, f.266
———, Correspondence with William Austin Dickinson in Austin and Mabel: The Amherst Affair and Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd, ed. Polly Longsworth (NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984)
———, Letters to Thomas Niles and Hardy of Roberts Brothers. Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
———, Letter to curator Charles Green. Jones Library
———, Correspondence with Amy Lowell. Houghton: bMS Lowell 19 (1211) and 19.1 (1293)
———, ‘Evolution of a Style’ (c. 1891). Perceptive TS essay or talk on Dickinson. Yale: 496C, series VII, box 103, f.263
———, Memories of Emily Dickinson (c. 1924). Yale: box 103, f.266
———, Celebration of ED’s centenary. Yale: f.398–9
———, ‘ED’s Literary Debut’, Harper’s Magazine, CLX (Mar 1930), 463–4. Actually written by her daughter.
———, Lecture circuit material. Yale: Mabel Loomis Todd Papers, 496F, box 14
———, Preface to The Letters of Emily Dickinson (Harper, 1931), ix–x
———, ‘Mabel Loomis Todd Speaks’ (10 and 12 October 1931). Yale: 496C, series VII, box 101, f.242
———, Journals. MS. Yale: microfilm
———, Diaries. MS. Yale: microfilm (seven reels)
———, Essay, ‘Famous Lovers’ (with excerpts from her correspondence with Austin Dickinson). Yale: box 103, f.270
———, Records of her associates. Yale: 496C, series VII:
on Helen Hunt Jackson: box 90, f.40
on Amy Lowell: box 90, f.50
on the Thoreau family: box 90, f.68
on Caroline Lovejoy Andrews: box 92, f.2
on Louisa May Alcott: box 92, f.1
on Higginson: box 92, f.27
on Oliver Wendell Holmes: box 92, f.35
on Julia Ward Howe: box 92, f.36
———, Total Eclipses of the Sun (Boston: Roberts Bros, 1894)
———, Defendants’ Answer, a rebuttal of Lavinia Dickinson’s Bill of Complaint, Jones Library, Amherst; Testimony, Dickinson v. Todd (Feb 1898). Houghton: MS Am 2521. Dickinson v. Todd Trial. Yale: 496C, series VII, box 101, f.239
———, TS ‘Written by Mabel Loomis Todd in 1898’ (statement for the Supreme Court hearing in September 1898). Yale: 496C, series VII, box 101, f.240
———, Photographs. Yale: 496E
Trial: Manuscript documents (1896–8) associated with the trials of Lavinia Dickinson v. the Todds and the Slander trial of the Todds v. Lavinia Dickinson, including the depositions of Margaret Maher, L. D. Hills, and Jane Seelye. Includes also a few pages to do with the Todds’ appeal to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Hampshire Superior Court Civil Action No. 125 in legal depository, Worcester, MA. Additional verbatim TS records of the evidence of Dwight Palmer, David Todd, Frances Seelye, and Margaret Maher (only a photocopied fragment remains of the last) are amongst Lavinia Dickinson’s Papers (16:18) in Hay Library, Brown University
Trial: Typescript records of statements made during the 1898 trials in the Superior Court of Northampton and the Supreme Court later that year. Copies in Houghton Library (Ms Am 2521) and the Todd papers, series VII, box 101, f.239, 240, at Yale. Copies of TS records also in Jones Library, Amherst and in Hay Library, Brown University
Turner, Clara Newman, ‘My Personal Acquaintance with Emily Dickinson’. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.7. Printed in part in Sewall, i, 265–75 with introduction by her niece Clara Newman Pearl. A typescript of the piece and introduction together with an insert on Dickinson’s domestic habits is amongst the Millicent Todd Bingham Papers. Yale: box 101, f.565
Untermeyer, Louis, ‘Thoughts after a Centenary’, The Saturday Review of Literature (20 June 1931). Copy amongst Todd Papers, Yale: 496C, series VII, box 101, f.238
Wadsworth, the Revd Charles, Letter to Dickinson (c. 1862), included in Johnson’s edition of Dickinson’s Letters: 248a
Ward, Jane (Curator of the Dickinson Museum in Amherst), 2007 Exhibition at the Dickinson Homestead
Whitney, Maria, Archives. Smith College: box 1046, f.42
———, Five letters (from 21 Berkeley Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts) to Mabel Loomis Todd (1894). Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library: Todd 335, box 19, f.1
Williams, Dr Henry Willard, Recent Advances in Ophthalmic Science: the Boylston Prize Essay for 1865 (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866). Copy in the Dickinsons’ library. Emily Dickinson Room, Houghton: 422
———, A Practical Guide to Diseases of the Eye (1867, revised 1869). 1869 edition in Widener Library, Harvard: 28.D.56
———, The Diagnosis and Treatment of the Diseases of the Eye (1881). Copy in Widener Library, Harvard: Med 2718.81
Williams, Tennessee, ‘Person-To-Person’, an introduction to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, referring to Emily Dickinson
Yorke, Vincent and Frederick J. Pohl, Brittle Heaven: An Amorous Tale of Long Ago, a play based on the legend of the poet’s life in Josephine Pollitt’s Emily Dickinson: The Human Background of her Poetry (NY: Harper, 1930)
CRITICISM, BIOGRAPHY AND RELATED WORKS
Academy of American Poets www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/58, including articles relating Dickinson to music: ‘Isaac Watts & Emily Dickinson: Inherited Meter’, ‘John Cage: The Roaring Silence’ and on Copeland’s song cycle, 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson
Anderson, Bonnie, Joyous Greetings: The First International Women’s Movement, 1830–1860 (NY: OUP, 2000)
Andrews, Carol Damon, ‘Thinking Musically, Writing Expectantly: New Biographical Information About Emily Dickinson’, New England Quarterly (summer 2008). Backs Gould as the poet’s lover, reviving Taggard’s 1930 biography
Archer, Seth, ‘“I Had a Terror”: Emily Dickinson’s Demon’, Southwest Review (2009), 255–73
Barker, Sebastian, Letter to TLS on Dickinson and religion (26 Jan 2007), following debate in the letters column, Nov 2006–Jan 2007
Benfey, Christopher, Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984)
———, Emily Dickinson, Lives of a Poet (NY: George Braziller, 1986)
———, ‘The Mystery of Emily Dickinson’, New York Review of Books (8 Apr 1999), 39–44
———, see Liebling, The Dickinsons of Amherst, below
———, A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade (NY: Penguin, 2008)
Bennett, Paula, Emily Dickinson: Woman Poet (London: Harvester, 1990)
———, My Life, a Loaded Gun: Dickinson, Plath, Rich, and Female Creativity (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c. 1986)
Bloom, Harold, The Western Canon (NY: Harcourt, 1994), 299–300
Boswell, Jeanetta, Emily Dickinson: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources, 1890–1987 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1989). This casts a wide net, including radio, films, tributes, recordings, fiction and foreign-language editions
Brock-Broido, Lucie, The Master Letters: Poems (NY: Knopf, 2002)
Capps, Jack L., Emily Dickinson’s Reading, 1836–1886 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966)
Cody, John, After Great Pain: The Inner Life of Emily Dickinson (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1971)
Cott, Nancy, The Bonds of Womanhood: ‘Women’s Sphere’ in New England, 1780–1835 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977)
D’Arienzo, Daria, and Margaret R. Dakin, ‘An even better home at Amherst’, Amherst (spring 2007), 26–33. On Dickinson’s letters and poems to the Tuckermans.
Davis, Philip, ‘A Shakespearean Grammar’ in Shakespeare Thinking (London: Continuum 2007)
———, ‘The Shakespeared Brain’, Literary Review (July 2008)
Deppman, Jed, Trying to Think with Emily Dickinson (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008)
Eberwein, Jane Donahue (ed.), An Emily Dickinson Encyclopaedia (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998)
——— and Cindy MacKenzie (eds), Reading Emily Dickinson’s Letters: Critical Essays (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009)
Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin
The Emily Dickinson Journal (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Erkkila, Betsy, The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord (NY: OUP, 1992)
———, ‘Emily Dickinson and Class’, American Literary History, 4 (1992), 1–27
Farr, Judith, The Passion of Emily Dickinson (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992)
Fenton, James, ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’, London Guardian: Saturday Review (4 Nov 2006)
Franklin, R. W., The Editing of Emily Dickinson: a Reconsideration (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967)
Gay, Peter, The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. The first volume, Education of the Senses (Norton, 1984) has a detailed treatment of Mabel Todd’s Diary as sexual record.
Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979)
Green, Elizabeth Alden, Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1979)
Habegger, Alfred, My Wars are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (NY: Random House, 2001)
———, ‘Some Problems in Reading Emily Dickinson’, Journal of English Language and Literature, vol. 51 (Nihan University, Tokyo, 2003)
———, ‘Evangelicalism and Its Discontents: Hannah Porter versus Emily Dickinson’, New England Quarterly, vol. 70 (Sept 1997), 386–414 Hall, David D. (ed.), The Antinomian Controversy, 1636–1638: A Documentary History (Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1968)
Hart, Ellen Louise, ‘The Encoding of Homoerotic Desire: Emily Dickinson’s Letters and Poems to Susan Dickinson, 1850–1886’, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 9/2 (fall 1990), 251–72
Hart, Josephine, Catching Life by the Throat: How to Read Poetry and Why (London: Virago, 2006; NY: Norton, 2007). Including a section on Dickinson, together with seven other major poets
Hirschhorn, Norbert, ‘Was it Tuberculosis? Another glimpse of Emily Dickinson’s health’, New England Quarterly, 72/1 (1999), 102–18
———, TS ‘Translation of Medications from Adams Pharmacy Scrapbook’, Health and Medicine folder, Jones Library Special Collections
——— and Polly Longsworth, ‘“Medicine Posthumous”: A New Look at Emily Dickinson’s Medical Conditions’, New England Quarterly, 69 (June 1996), 299–316
Homans, Margaret, Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Brontë, and Emily Dickinson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980)
Jackson, Virginia, ‘Thinking Dickinson Thinking Poetry’ in A Companion to Emily Dickinson, eds Smith and Loeffelholz, 205–21
Jenkins, MacGregor, Emily Dickinson: Friend and Neighbour (Boston: Little, Brown, 1930)
Juhasz, Suzanne, The Undiscovered Continent: Emily Dickinson and the Space of the Mind (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1993)
———, Martha Nell Smith and Cristanne Miller, Comic Power in Emily Dickinson (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993)
Karlin, Daniel, ‘Recurring Woman’, London Review of Books (24 Aug 2000), 21–2. Questioning review of Franklin’s variorum edition
Kaufmann, Paola (trans. William Rowlandson), The Sister: A novel on the hidden world of Emily Dickinson (2003; Richmond, Surrey: Alma Books, 2006)
Kelley, Mary, Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America (NY: OUP, 1984)
Lang, Amy, Prophetic Women: Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987)
Leyda, Jay, The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960)
Liebling, Jerome, The Dickinsons of Amherst (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2001). Photographs with essays by Christopher Benfey, Polly Longsworth and Barton Levi St Armand
Loeffelholz, Mary, From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004)
——— and Martha Nell Smith (eds), A Companion to Emily Dickinson (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)
Loeschke, Maravene S., The Path Between: An Historical Novel of the Dickinson Family of Amherst (Columbia, MD: C. H. Fairfax, 1988)
Longsworth, Polly (ed.), Austin and Mabel. See Primary Sources
——— The World of Emily Dickinson (NY: Norton, 1990, paperback 1997)
——— ‘The “Latitude of Home”: Life in the Homestead and the Evergreens’ in Liebling, above
——— see Hirschhorn, above
MacMurray, Rose, Afternoons with Emily (NY: Little, Brown, 2007)
McNeil, Helen, Emily Dickinson (London, Virago, 1986; NY: Pantheon, 1986)
Malcolm, Janet, The Journalist and the Murderer (1990; London: Granta, 1997)
Martin, Wendy (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson (2002)
Matteson, John, Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and her Father (NY: Norton, 2007)
Mendelson, Edward, The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life (NY: Pantheon, 2006). Chapter on Emily Brontë is suggestive of Dickinson’s affinities for her
Messmer, Marietta, ‘A vice for voices’: Reading Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001)
Miller, Cristanne, Emily Dickinson: A Poet’s Grammar (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987)
———, ‘The Sound of Shifting Paradigms, or Hearing Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century’ in Pollak (ed.), A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson, 201–34
———, ‘Dickinson’s Structured Rhythms’ in Smith and Loeffelholz (eds), A Companion to Emily Dickinson, 391–414.
——— with Suzanne Juhasz and Martha Nell Smith, Comic Power in Emily Dickinson (University of Texas Press, 1993)
Mitchell, Domhnall, Measurements of Possibility: Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts (Amherst: Massachusetts University Press, 2005)
——— and Maria Stuart (eds), International Reception of Emily Dickinson (London: Continuum, 2009)
Mizruchi, Susan L., Becoming Multicultural: Culture, Economy, and the Novel, 1860–1920 in Cambridge History of American Literature, ed. Sacvan Bercovitch, iii: Prose Writing, 1860–1920 (Cambridge: CUP, 2005)
———, The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865–1915 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009). Separate publication of the above
Moers, Ellen, Literary Women (London: The Women’s Press, 1978)
Morris, Leslie A., Foreword to Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium (above) has a succinct history of the Dickinson Papers and how they came to Harvard
Morse, Jonathan, ‘Bibliographical Essay’ in Pollak (ed.), A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson, 255–83
Murray, Aífe, ‘Miss Margaret’s Emily Dickinson’, Signs (spring 1999), vol. 24/3, 697–732
Oates, Joyce Carol, ‘The Woman in White’, New York Review of Books (25 Sept 2008). Review of Wineapple, White Heat
Orzeck, Martin and Robert Weisbuch (eds), Dickinson and Audience (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996)
Ostriker, Alicia Suskin, Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1986; London: The Women’s Press, 1986)
Paglia, Camille, ‘Amherst’s Madame de Sade’ in Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990)
Patterson, Rebecca, The Riddle of Emily Dickinson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951)
Petrino, Elizabeth A., Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries: Women’s Verse in America (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1998)
Phillips, Kate, Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003)
Pollak, Vivian R., ‘American Women Poets Reading Dickinson: The Example of Helen Hunt Jackson’ in Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbüchle and Cristanne Miller (eds), The Emily Dickinson Handbook (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998), 323–41
——— (ed.), A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson (NY: OUP, 2004). Includes ‘A Brief Biography’ by Vivian Pollak and Marianne Noble
Porter, Roy, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present (London: Harper, 1997)
Powers, Wendy Ann, ‘Emily Brontë and Emily Dickinson: Parallel Lives on Opposing Shores’, Brontë Studies, vol. 32/2 (July 2007), 145–9
Raine, Craig, ‘Ordinary, Sacred Things’ and subsequent debate on Dickinson and religion in the letters column of TLS (24 Nov 2006–Jan 2007)
Rector, Liam, ‘Bidart’s The Sacrifice’ in On Frank Bidart: Fastening the Voice to the Page, ed. Liam Rector and Tree Swenson (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), 130–1. Suggestive comments on the ‘connective tissue’ of reinvented punctuation.
Richardson, Robert D., Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Chapel Hill: University of California Press, 1995)
Scott, D. F., The History of Epileptic Therapy (Carnforth: Parthenon, 1993)
Sewall, Richard Benson, The Life of Emily Dickinson, 2 vols (NY: Farrar, Giroux, 1974; London: Faber, 1974; repr. Harvard University Press, 1994). Appendix II to the first volume prints a few of a vast Yale collection of documents relevant to the ‘War between the Houses’. In section 4 of Appendix II, Sewall offers a ‘synthesis’ of three typescripts of Mabel Todd’s reminiscences in the Yale archive, under the title of one of them, ‘Scurrilous but True’. Scurrilous they are, but not true. Fascinating for the distortions of Todd’s slander as it thickened over many decades. Section 5 of Appendix II is notes taken by Millicent Todd Bingham during an interview with her father in September—October 1933, after her mother’s death, when Millicent was taking on her mother’s campaign. Section 6 is an extract from only one of Millicent’s massive collection of TS reminiscences at Yale.
———, The Lyman Letters: New Light on Emily Dickinson and her Family (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1965). Copy in Library of Congress
——— (ed.), Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1963)
——— and Martin Wand, ‘“Eyes Be Blind, Heart Be Still”: A New Perspective on Emily Dickinson’s Eye Problem’, New England Quarterly, 52/3 (Sept 1979), 400–6
Seymour, Miranda, ‘Emily’s Tryst’, New York Times (24 Aug 2008). Review of Wineapple, White Heat
Showalter, Elaine, lecture on American women writers. Oxford (11 May 2006)
———, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (London: Virago, 2009)
———, The Female Malady (London: Virago, 1985)
Smith, Martha Nell, Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992)
——— A User’s Guide to Emily Dickinson (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010)
——— with Cristanne Miller and Suzanne Juhasz, Comic Power in Emily Dickinson (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993) ——— and Ellen Louise Hart (eds), Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntingdon Dickinson. In Primary Sources
——— and Mary Loeffelholz (eds), A Companion to Emily Dickinson (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), including essays by the editors
The Smith College Monthly (Nov 1941). Special Dickinson issue
Spender, Dale, Man Made Language (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985)
St Armand, Barton Levi, ‘Keeper of the Keys: Mary Hampson, the Evergreens, and the Art Within’ in Jerome Liebling et al., The Dickinsons of Amherst (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2001), 107–67
———, Emily Dickinson and Her Culture: The Soul’s Society (Cambridge: CUP, 1986)
———, ‘“Your Prodigal”: Letters from Ned Dickinson, 1879–1885’, New England Quarterly, 61/3 (September 1988)
Stuart, Maria (ed.), International Reception of Emily Dickinson (London: Continuum, 2009)
Temkin, Owsei, The Falling Sickness: History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology (1945; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971, second edn)
Tufariello, Catherine, ‘“The Remembering Wine”: Emerson’s Influence on Whitman and Dickinson’ in The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Joel Porte and Sandra Morris (Cambridge: CUP, 1999)
Vendler, Helen, Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006)
Walsh, John Evangelist, This Brief Tragedy: Unravelling the Todd—Dickinson Affair (NY: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991)
Wand, Martin and Richard B. Sewall, ‘Eyes Be Blind, Heart Be Still: A New Perspective on Emily Dickinson’s Eye Problem’, New England Quarterly, 52/3 (1979), 400–6.
Ward, Theodora (granddaughter of Dr and Mrs Holland), ‘The Finest Secret’, Harvard Library Bulletin, vol. 98, 90–106
Whicher, George Frisbie, This Was a Poet: Emily Dickinson (NY: Scribners, 1938, repr. University of Michigan: Ann Arbor Paperbacks, 1957, repr. 1960)
Wineapple, Brenda, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (NY: Knopf, 2008)
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin, Emily Dickinson (NY: Perseus Books, 1986)
Wolosky, Shira, Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984)
———, ‘Emily Dickinson’ in The Cambridge History of American Literature, ed. Sacvan Bercovitch, iv: Nineteenth-Century Poetry 1800–1910 (Cambridge: CUP, 2004)