Contributor
Eberwein, Jane Donahue, 1943- editor.
ImprintIowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2015]
Imprint2015
Descriptionxxxv, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Note:Includes some primary source material.
Note:Introduction -- Chronology of Emily Dickinson's Life -- Part 1. A Life Enshrouded in "fiery mist" -- The Young Dickinson -- Daniel T. Fiske to Mabel Loomis Todd, 6 February 1894 -- Amelia D. Jones Stearns, Reminiscence of Mount Holyoke days, 1899 -- Emily L. Norcross to Hannah Porter from Mount Holyoke, 11 January 1848 -- Jeanie Ashley Bates Greenough, Reminiscence, n.d. -- Austin Dickinson to Joseph Lyman, 20 December 1848 (excerpt) -- Dickinson as Poet -- Susan and Emily Dickinson, Exchange on "Safe in their AlabasterChambers," 1861-62 -- Joseph Lyman and Emily Dickinson, n.d. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Emily Dickinson, 11 May 1869 -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson on first visit to Dickinson, 16-17 August 1870 -- Lydia B. Torrey to Emily F. Ford, 16 November 1872 -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Anna and Louisa Higginson, 9 December 1873 (excerpt) -- Domestic Seclusion and Emerging Reputation -- Helen Hunt Jackson, Letters to Emily Dickinson and Material Regarding A Masque of Poets, 1876-79 -- "Saxe Holm" Speculations, July-August 1878 -- Catherine Scott Anthon to Susan Dickinson, n.d. -- Mabel Loomis Todd, Journal entries on the "Myth" of Amherst, 1882 -- Thomas Niles, Correspondence with Emily Dickinson, 1882-83 -- Lavinia Dickinson, Poem for Emily, 1882 -- Helen Hunt Jackson to Emily Dickinson, 1884-85 -- Death Notices -- Northampton Daily Herald, 17 May 1886 -- Obituary by Susan Dickinson, Springfield Republican, 18 May 1886 -- Part 2. The Life of the Poems -- Publication of, Correspondence Regarding, and Reception of Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890) and Poems: Second Series (1891) -- Arlo Bates, Report to Thomas Niles of Roberts Brothers, c. June 1890 -- Austin Dickinson to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 10 October 1890 -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "Preface" to Poems, 1890. Mabel Loomis Todd, "Bright Bits from Bright Books," Home Magazine, 3 November 1890 -- E. Winchester Donald to Mabel Loomis Todd, 8-9 December 1890 -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Correspondence with Mabel Loomis Todd, 1890 -- Susan Dickinson to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, December 1890 -- John White Chadwick, "Poems by Emily Dickinson" (review), Christian Register, 18 December 1890 -- William Dean Howells, "Editor's Study" (review), Harper's New Monthly Magazine, January 1891 -- Andrew Lang, "The Newest Poet" (review), Daily News (London), 2 January 1891 -- Thomas Niles to Mabel Loomis Todd, 17 February 1891 -- Lavinia Dickinson to Thomas Niles, 24 February 1891 -- Susan and William Austin Dickinson, Correspondence with William Hayes Ward, February and March 1891 -- S.J. Barrows to Mabel Loomis Todd, 1891 -- Charles E.L. Wingate, "Boston Letter," The Critic, 9 May 1891 (excerpt) -- Mabel Loomis Todd to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 25 July 1891 -- Samuel G. Ward to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 11 October 1891 -- Mabel Loomis Todd, Journal entry, Amherst, 18 October 1891 (excerpt) -- Alice James, Diary entry, 6 January 1892 -- Elihu Vedder to Lavinia Dickinson, 19 January 1892 -- "Letters" (1891), Letters (1894), and Poems (1896) -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson, "Emily Dickinson's Letters," Atlantic Monthly, October 1891 -- Emily Fowler Ford, Letters to Lavinia Dickinson and Memoir, 1893 -- Caroline Healey Dall, "Two Women's Books" (review), Boston Evening Transcript, 22 December 1894 -- Lavinia Dickinson to Caroline Healey Dall, 29 January 1895 -- E. Winchester Donald to Mabel Loomis Todd, 29 December 1894 -- Rupert Hughes, "The Ideas of Emily Dickinson" (review), Godey's Magazine, November 1896 -- Bliss Carman, "A Note on Emily Dickinson" (review), Boston Evening Transcript, 21 November 1896 -- Memoirs by Friends and Family, 1891-1906. MacGregor Jenkins, "A Child's Recollections of Emily Dickinson," Christian Union, 24 October 1891 -- Clara Newman Turner, Reminiscences, c. 1896 -- Henrietta Mack Eliot, "Was She a Recluse?," Portland Sunday Oregonian, 19 March 1899 (excerpt) -- Louisa Norcross "Housework Defended" (letter), Woman's Journal, March 1904 -- Part 3. Twentieth-Century Recognition and Remembrance -- Re-imaging Dickinson -- Martha Dickinson Bianchi, "The Editor's Preface," The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime, 1914 -- Amy Lowell, "Imagism Past and Present: Emily Dickinson," lecture delivered at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 20 March 1918 --Daniel Bliss, The Reminiscences of Daniel Bliss, 1920 (excerpt) -- Martha Dickinson Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson, 1924 (excerpt) -- Clara Bellinger Green, "The Sketch Book: A Reminiscence of Emily Dickinson," The Bookman, November 1924 -- Centennial Reminiscences -- MacGregor Jenkins, Emily Dickinson Friend and Neighbor, 1930 (excerpt) -- Gertrude Graves, "A Cousin's Memories of Emily Dickinson," Boston Globe, 12 January 1930 (excerpt) -- (Lois) Ella Cowles Ellis and Jenny Lind Cowles, Reminiscences, c. 1932.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197) and index.
Note:"Even before the first books of her poems were published in the 1890s, friends, neighbors, and even apparently strangers knew Emily Dickinson was a writer of remarkable verses. Featuring both well-known documents and material printed or collected here for the first time, this book offers a broad range of writings that convey impressions of Dickinson in her own time and for the first decades following the publication of her poems. It all begins with her school days and continues to the centennial of her birth in 1930. In addition, promotional items, reviews, and correspondence relating to early publications are included, as well as some later documents that reveal the changing assessments of Dickinson's poetry in response to evolving critical standards. These documents provide evidence that counters many popular conceptions of her life and reception, such as the belief that the writer best known for poems focused on loss, death, and immortality was herself a morose soul. In fact, those who knew her found her humorous, playful, and interested in other people. Dickinson maintained literary and personal correspondence with major representatives of the national literary scene, developing a reputation as a remarkable writer even as she maintained extreme levels of privacy. Evidence compiled here also demonstrates that she herself made considerable provision for the survival of her poems and laid the groundwork for their eventual publication. Dickinson in Her Own Time reveals the poet as her contemporaries knew her, before her legend took hold."-- Provided by publisher.
