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 ...

Emily Dickinson is one of America’s most important poets. Her work — nearly 2,000 poems, discovered after her death in 1885 — is unlike anything written during the 19th century. It had a profound ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many people are drawn to Emily Dickinson because of her mysterious life — the brilliant poet rarely left her family home in Amherst, Mass., and her work wasn't recognized until after her death. But ...

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“My god, you will ruin the good name of Dickinson!” The series, created by playwright Alena Smith, takes place in and around the Dickinson family home in Amherst in the middle of the 19th century.

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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This memoir, by Emily Dickinson’s niece — first published in 1932, and out of print for decades — is a wonderful example of how biography can illuminate the life and work of an artist even when the ...

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 ...