The volume, edited by Dickinson scholars Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell, is the most complete collection of Dickinson ...

By comparison, Emily Dickinson’s known epistolary output ... In one of the most entertaining sections of her book, Ms. Bergland turns to the fascinating figure of Edward Hitchcock, the closest ...

She had never seen Vesuvius; in fact, she had rarely left and never too far or for too long her room in the house with a ...

(Courtesy Emily Dickinson Museum) No literary pilgrimage ... Newton gifted her Ralph Waldo Emerson’s first book of collected poems and introduced her to William Wordsworth’s work, believing ...

But Dickinson remained shrouded by obscurity ... when her sister Lavinia found 40 hand-sewn manuscript books crammed with Emily’s writings – that her work reached the public.