Civil War and, 80–81
daemon archetype of, 24
Emily on, 76–77, 84–85
lull in, 80–81, 82
poem on, 77
productive period of, 42, 63, 80, 82, 152, 190–91
Curtis, Tony, 119, 125
daemon dog. See Carlo (dog)
daemons
Carlo as, 83, 85, 86
creativity as, 24
daguerreotypes
Austin on, 103, 133
Bingham on, 133–34, 135
cabinet photo of Emily, 121–22
Carlo, S., as finder of, 213–17
of 1847, 14, 133–36, 137, 140, 141, 143, 155, 214–15
of 1859, 141–43, 144, 146, 150–51, 152, 165, 186, 213–15
Emily’s eyes in, 133, 135, 143, 214–15
invention of, 133
Kate with Emily in, 141–42, 143, 150–51, 215
Maher’s saving of, 103, 135
photographers of, 134
popular renditions of, 135–36
Vinnie’s alterations and opinions of, 103, 133, 135
Dakin, Mimi, 213, 216
Dance Index, 120
dashes, 25, 26, 99, 155, 160, 166, 186, 195, 207
Davis, Jefferson, 82
death
of Carlo (dog), 80, 82, 92, 95, 191, 203
of Dickinson, Samuel, 64
of Emily, 38, 99, 105, 153
of Gib, 104, 170
of Harris, 15
of Lord, 104
of mother, 104
of Norcross, Lavinia, 58
as poetry subject, 44, 81, 92, 132, 140, 164–65, 166–67, 201
of Wadsworth, 104
Dickens, Charles, 22, 185
Dickinson, Austin (brother), 48, 54, 55, 63, 73, 102, 127, 205, 216
at Amherst College, 72
birth of, 53
on daguerreotype, 103, 133
Emily on, 47
father’s relationship with, 21, 76, 79, 92–93, 94
letters to, 28, 29, 34, 46, 65, 66
religion of, 73
Sue’s marriage to, 23, 32, 109, 144, 147, 148
Dickinson, Edward (father)
Austin’s relationship with, 21, 76, 79, 92–93, 94
controlling temper of, 59–60, 64, 65
courtship and wedding of, 49–52
as Earl, 67, 68
Emily on, 47
Emily’s relationship with, 20, 21, 31–32, 43, 65–68, 126, 165, 205
letter to, 67
in poems, 67, 93–95
politics of, 60, 64, 67, 81, 96, 170, 205
railroad of, 95, 96
religion of, 73
Dickinson, Edward “Ned” (nephew), 55
Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth “Emily.” See specific topics
Dickinson, Emily Norcross (mother), 46–47
ancestry and early life of, 49, 55
courtship and wedding of, 49–52
death of, 104
Emily’s relationship with, 41–43, 44, 46, 57, 61–62
as invalid, 42, 60, 64, 65, 74, 171
married life and motherhood of, 53–54, 55–56, 59–60, 64–66
melancholy of, 42, 46, 53, 60, 63–65, 93
personality of, 58–62
writing aversion of, 46, 59
Dickinson, Lavinia “Vinnie” (sister), 90, 170, 207
banal life of, 126–27
birth of, 56
daguerreotype alterations and opinions of, 103, 133, 135
Emily on, 47
Lyman and, 63
as mermaid, 93, 126, 127
poetry of, 47, 126
on publication of Emily’s poetry, 148–49
religion of, 73
Dickinson, Lucretia Gunn (grandmother), 52, 53, 56, 63, 64
Dickinson, Samuel Fowler (grandfather), 49–50, 53, 64
Dickinson, Susan Gilbert “Sue” (sister-in-law), 203, 205, 215, 216
as androgynous, 144
Austin’s marriage to, 23, 32, 109, 144, 147, 148
bisexuality of, 148, 149
Bowles, Sam and, 198
cache of Emily’s letters, 19
as Cleopatra, 32, 148, 194, 197
on Emily, 44
Emily in love with, 21, 22–23, 75, 108–9, 148, 168, 198
Emily’s letters to, 75, 82, 170, 177, 191, 192, 195–96
Kate’s relationship with, 108–9, 144, 147, 198
as preceptor, 163
on publication of poems, 75
Stowe’s visit with, 198–99
Dickinson Electronic Archives, 135
Dime Store Alchemy (Simic), 118, 124
“Dirks of Melody” [Fr1450], 33, 44, 172
Boatswain, 71–72
“Dog Story: How Did the Dog Become Our Master?” (Gopnik), 71
doppelgängers, 209–10
Duchamp, Marcel, 125
Dylan, Bob, 37
Earl, father as, 67, 68
“EDickinsonRepliLuxe” (Oates), 136–40, 141, 143, 165, 210
L’Education sentimentale (Flaubert), 172–74
1847 daguerreotype, 14, 133–36, 137, 140, 141, 143, 155, 214–15
1859 daguerreotype, 141–43, 144, 146, 150–51, 152, 165, 186, 213–15
Eisenstein, Sergei, 157
electronic archives, 135, 154, 158
Eliot, Florence “Florrie,” 111–12
Eliot, George, 22, 89, 153, 158
Elizabethan England, 87
Elssler, Fanny, 118
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 22, 23, 26, 66, 133, 186
Emily. See Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
Emily Dickinson: A Revelation (Bingham), 216
Emily Dickinson at age 52, 141
Emily Dickinson International Society, 141, 195
Emily Dickinson Museum, 143, 207, 212
Emily Dickinson’s Home (Bingham), 134
Emily Dickinson’s Open Folios (Werner), 164, 192
“Enobarbus” (fictional character), 166
envelope poems, 112, 154, 175–78, 180–84, 196
eroticism
in Master Letters, 187
in poems, 31, 147, 149, 150
Evans, Walker, 115
Evergreens manor, 21, 23, 75–76, 93, 109, 144, 147, 198
eyes
astigmatism and irritation of, 44, 80, 82, 143, 191
in daguerreotype, 133, 135, 143, 214–15
Fanny. See Norcross, Frances
Farley, Abby, 104
fascicles (booklets), 21–22, 27, 30, 63, 81–82, 96, 99, 155, 191, 193–94, 196
father. See Dickinson, Edward
Faust, Drew Gilpin, 169–70
fears, of heterosexuality, 31
“The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America” (Smith-Rosenberg), 48, 148
“Finding is the first Act” [Fr910], 36
Flaubert, Gustave, 172–74
“Foreign Lady.” See Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
fragments, 113, 152, 153, 155
The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope-Poems (Bervin and Werner), 175–78, 180–84
“Grasped by God” [PF 76], 155
house-shaped [Fr1512], 112–13, 113
Johnson on, 155–57
lexicon of, 163–64
Leyda on, 157–58
prison imagery in, 163
as radical scatters, 154, 158, 159, 160, 164, 165, 191, 197
used in poems, 159
Werner on, 154, 156, 158, 159–60, 162, 164–65
“A Woe of Ecstasy” [Fr1599], 161, 161–62
Franklin, R. W., 92, 182, 193
freckles, 20, 73, 89–90, 93, 109
“Frédéric Moreau” (fictional character), 173–74
French Poets and Novelists (James), 173
Frost, Robert, 107
Fugitive Slave Act, 189
funeral, 38, 99, 105
Garbo, Greta, 20, 21, 125
Gardner, Tom, 185
garters, for Kate, 30–31
Gauguin, Paul, 210
Gib (nephew), 104, 170
Gilbert, Sandra M., 32, 43
Gilbert, Susan. See Dickinson, Susan Gilbert
Gopnik, Adam, 71, 76, 83, 211
Gordon, Lyndall, 59
The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope-Poems (Bervin and Werner), 175–78, 180–84
Gould, George, 72–73, 149
Gould, Glenn, 209
Grangerford, Emmeline, 134
“Grasped by God” [PF76] fragment, 155
Green Mansions (Hudson), 176
Gubar, Susan, 32, 43
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift), 160
Gura, Philip, 140–41
Habegger, Alfred, 34, 43, 59
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 166, 204
handwriting, 27, 94, 156, 191, 194–96
“Harold Krim” (fictional character), 136–40
Harris, Julie, 15–16, 18, 20, 21
Harte, Bret, 23, 147
Hartley, Marsden, 112
“He fumbles at your Soul” [Fr477A], 132
“He lived the Life of Ambush” [Fr1571B], 202
Hemingway, Ernest, 136
hiding, in white dress, 32, 33, 92, 163, 203
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 104, 185, 207
in Civil War, 79, 170
edits of Emily’s poetry by, 19
on Emily’s appearance, 16, 142
Emily’s feelings for, 23, 149–50
Emily’s letters to, 23, 28, 31, 32, 33, 40, 42, 78–80, 81, 82, 84, 90, 177, 209
Emily’s meeting with, 16–17, 41, 90
on Emily’s poetry, 26–27
as portrayed in The Belle of Amherst, 16
as preceptor, 17, 22, 23–24, 37, 163
as publisher and editor, 26–27, 37–38, 156, 190
‘Queen Recluse’ nickname for Emily, 20, 156, 199, 214
Hirschorn, Norbert, 122, 171
Holland, Mrs. J. G., 42, 47, 63–64
homeless, Emily as, 64, 158, 160, 169
Homestead, 16, 63, 95, 97, 108, 121
construction of, 53
Emily’s room in, 21
Leyda at, 157–58
mother’s melancholy in, 42, 63–65, 93
Pearl Jail in, 58, 144
Hopper, Edward, 114
Houdini, Harry, 115, 124
house-shaped poetry fragment [Fr1512], 112–13, 113
Howe, Julia Ward, 201
Howe, Mark DeWolfe, 184–85
Howe, Susan, 45, 85
early years of, 184–85
on 1859 daguerreotype, 186
on Gorgeous Nothings, 182–83
on Master Letters, 187
on nineteenth century women, 48, 158
Werner and, 179–80
on writing style, 66, 141, 186, 192, 193, 207
Hudson, W. H., 176
Hunt, E. B., 70
Hunt, Helen Fiske, 70
Hunter, Joyce, 125–26
huntress and predator persona, 142, 150, 152, 217
“I am not used to Hope” [Fr535], 68, 111. See also blue peninsula imagery
“I cannot dance opon my Toes” [Fr381A], 33, 120, 124
iconography, of white dress, 20, 25, 135, 211
idiot savant twins, 204–5, 207, 208, 209–10
“I dreaded that first Robin, so” [Fr347], 167–68
“I felt a Cleaving in my Mind” [Fr867B], 76–77
“I heard a Fly buzz—when I died” [Fr591], 129–30
illness, of Emily, 104
influences
Maher as, 98–99, 102, 104
Shakespeare as, 22, 32, 153, 166, 186, 207
“In many and reportless places”
[Fr1404], 177–78
innocent persona, 32, 64
invalids
Browning, Elizabeth, as, 89
“career,” 74
Emily as, 74, 126
mother as, 42, 60, 64, 65, 74, 171
Irish immigrants, 95–96, 98, 188
“I saw no Way—the Heavens were stitched” [Fr633], 77, 92
“I shall not murmur if at last” [Fr1429], 146–47
“I started Early—Took my Dog” [Fr656], 83–84
“I stepped from Plank to Plank” [Fr926], 173, 174
“It feels a shame to be Alive” [Fr524], 81
“I think I was enchanted” [Fr627], 90
“It is solemn to remember that Vastness” [Fr1548], 209
Ivesiana, 130
“I would not paint—a picture” [Fr348], 100–101
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 162–63
James, Alice, 74
James, Henry, 74, 136, 173
James, William, 74
Jane Eyre (Brontë, C.), 72, 73
Joan of Arc, 15
Johnson, Thomas H., 155–57, 179, 182, 190–91
Jonze, Spike, 135
Joyce, James, 184, 190
“Judith Shakespeare” (fictional character), 87–89, 92, 93, 158
kangaroo, Emily as, 90, 142, 152
Kate. See Anthon, Kate Scott Turner
Kazin, Alfred, 157
Keats, John, 22
Kelley, Tom, 97, 106
Kent, Allegra, 117, 125, 128–32
“King Lear” (fictional character), 51, 53
“Lady Macbeth” (fictional character), 166
Lampoon, 206
left-handed writing, 207
Leigh, Augusta, 72
letters
to Austin, 28, 29, 34, 46, 65, 66
to Bowles, Sam, 81, 89, 177, 192, 215
Carlo (dog) in, 70–71, 78–79, 80
to Chickering, 90
to Fanny and Loo, 58, 96–97, 104, 153
to father, 67
to Higginson, 23, 28, 31, 32, 33, 40, 42, 78–80, 81, 82, 84, 90, 177, 209
to Jackson, 162–63
to Kate, 110, 146, 192
Leyda on, 27
to Lord, 18
to Maher, 105
Master Letters, 18, 37, 63, 100, 104, 149–50, 165, 187
prison in, 80
puzzling nature of, 37
to Smith, Martha G., 150
to Sue, 75, 82, 170, 177, 191, 192, 195–96
Sue’s cache of, 19
Todd’s cache of, 19
lexicon
balloon imagery in, 100–101, 102
of Emily’s poems, 19, 22, 29, 30, 43, 46, 66, 158, 178, 197
of fragments, 163–64
mermaids in, 84, 135
Leyda, Jay, 29, 59, 104, 157
on Aurora Leigh and Emily, 91
on Carlo (dog), 70
and Cornell, 112–13, 131, 157
on Emily’s stay with aunt, 56
on fragments, 157–58
at Homestead, 157–58
on Kate and Emily, 143–44
on letters, 27
life of, 157
“Lovely” pencil for, 113, 123
on Maher, 95, 98
on puzzles and riddles, 29, 31, 73
on writing style, 29–30, 157
liberator, 154, 155
Liberman, Alexander, 119
“Like Men and Women Shadows walk” [Fr964], 165
Lincoln, Abraham, 170, 189
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 15
Lives Like Loaded Guns (Gordon), 59
loaded gun image, 24–25, 82, 84, 142, 150–51, 193, 202, 213, 217
locomotive stamp, in poem, 95
Longsworth, Polly, 134, 136, 141
Loo. See Norcross, Louise
Lord, Otis P. (Judge), 18, 20, 85, 99, 104, 165, 178, 196, 216
“A loss of something ever felt I” [Fr1072], 45
“Lost and Found: Emily Dickinson’s Unknown Daguerreotypist” (Bernhard), 134
“Lovely” pencil, 113, 123
Luce, William, 15–16, 17, 18–19, 20, 21, 25
lull, in creativity, 80–81, 82
Lyman, Joseph, 63, 67–68, 81, 12
6
Lyon, Mary, 35–36, 206
MacLeish, Archibald, 107
“Madelyn Krim” (fictional character), 136–40
madwoman image, 32, 33, 43–44, 104, 144, 208
The Madwoman in the Attic (Gilbert and Gubar), 32
Maher, Margaret “Maggie,” 188
on burning of Emily’s poems, 99, 102
daguerreotype saved by, 103, 135
as Emily’s ally, 95, 96–97, 104–6
influence on Emily, 98–99, 102, 104
letter to, 105
Leyda on, 95, 98
poems stored by, 99, 102–3
as servant to Dickinson family, 95–97, 102–6
Maid as Muse (Murray), 53, 98
maids. See servants
male lovers, alleged, 149–50
male prejudice, 107–8
Malkovich, John, 135
““Mama” never forgets her birds” [Fr130], 58
manuscript fragment, 112–13, 113
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Sacks), 204
Maracci, Carmelita, 128
marriage
Austin and Sue’s, 23, 32, 109, 144, 147, 148
Emily on, 31, 45, 76
Kate’s, 108, 109, 110, 111
nineteenth century, 54–55
masks, of Emily, 28, 32, 33, 45, 77, 78, 100, 101, 142
“Master Letters,” 18, 37, 63, 100, 104, 149–50, 165, 187
Mather, Cotton, 34
Matthews, G. V., 154
McGann, Jerome, 183
melancholy, of mother, 42, 46, 53, 60, 63–65, 93
Melville, Herman, 44, 107, 157, 184
The Melville Log (Leyda), 157
mentor. See preceptor
mermaids
Emily as, 59, 93, 126, 148, 152
in Emily’s lexicon, 84, 135
in poems, 83–84
Vinnie as, 93, 126, 127
Milton, John, 89
“Miss Emily’s Maggie” (Leyda), 95
Mission to Moscow (film), 157
“Molly Bloom” (fictional character), 190
Monson, Massachusetts, 49, 50, 52, 53, 56, 57, 60, 65, 77
Monson Academy, 49
Montague, Jemima, 52–53, 55
mother. See Dickinson, Emily Norcross
Motherwell, Robert, 119
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 34–36, 44, 46, 55, 65, 195, 206
Murray, Aífe, 53, 60, 76, 98–99, 102, 103, 105
mute confederate, 76, 78, 82, 83, 85
“My basket holds—just—Firmaments” [Fr358], 38
My Emily Dickinson (Howe), 45
“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun” [Fr764], 24–25, 82, 84, 142, 150–51, 193, 202, 213, 217
mythologizing, of Emily, 19–20, 36, 142, 149
Nabokov, Vladimir, 131
“A narrow Fellow in the Grass” [J986], 19, 184
Nerval, Gérard de, 116
Newfoundland dogs, 71–72
Newton, Ben, 149
New York City Ballet, 130
“Nick Greene” (fictional character), 88
Nijinska, Bronislava, 128
Nijinska, Vaslav, 128
Niles, Thomas, 150
nineteenth century women, 21, 22, 30, 45, 49, 74, 88–89, 158