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Even as a nine-year-old, the precocious Emily Dickinson had a special love of botany. To use a technical word like botany might seem a stretch when considering a mere child. But not for this ...

This biography is informed by two revelations: first, a bombshell that is likely to be debated as long as there are inquiring readers of Emily Dickinson; and second, the effect of a family love affair ...

In the 1800s, American poet Emily Dickinson was considered an eccentric for being a woman in that era with unique writing capabilities. Many of her poems deal with themes of death, immortality, gender ...

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The cover of the little book is green with pink lilies. Love Poems by Emily Dickinson, published by Peter Pauper Press in 1950, opens with a short biographical note. Born in Amherst in 1830, dead in ...

In celebration of National Poetry month, all 1,789 of Emily Dickinson's poems will be read aloud by poetry fans of all ages in a marathon 14-hour event this Saturday at the Karpeles Manuscript Library ...

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 ...