Lyndall Gordon's Lives Like Loaded Guns explores the family secrets of the reclusive 19th-century poet. Gordon theorizes that Dickinson may have... Biography Speculates Emily Dickinson Had Epilepsy A ...

The postscript for director Madeleine Olnek’s new biopic Wild Nights with Emily states: “Notions persist to this day of Emily Dickinson as a spinster old maid who was afraid to leave her room or ...

Conventional wisdom has it you can tell a lot about a person by the company he or she keeps. But, what if posterity makes a big mistake in judging a famous somebody's friends; wouldn't that blunder ...

“Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds” by Lyndall Gordon (Viking, 491 pgs., $32.95) Why can’t we leave Emily Dickinson alone? Since her death in 1886, the iconic American ...

Though almost all of Emily Dickinson’s famous poems, from the morbid “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” to the uplifting “‘Hope’ Is the Thing With Feathers,” were published after her death, she’s ...

So why do we need another biography of the belle of Amherst? One good reason is that Alfred Habegger has employed more recent scholarship and corrected dates on some 40 letters that were misattributed ...

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A week after Emily Dickinson died in 1886, her younger sister Lavinia opened drawers in the reclusive poet's bedroom and found a veritable treasure trove: nearly 1,800 poems, meticulously crafted by ...

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