Emily Dickinson Page

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson,

a 19th century American poet, was born 10 December 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. She attended Amherst Academy and Mount Female Holyoke Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College), and lived a private life: only ten of her poems were published in her lifetime. She was a good cook (try her Black Cake or Fruit Cake Recipes, updated for modern kitchens), tended a lovely garden, and sent baskets with notes, poems, or epigrams and flowers to friends and sick town folk. After her death on 15 May 1886 over 1700 poems, which she had bound into booklets, were discovered. The fame of her poetry has spread until now she is acclaimed throughout the world.

We have collected links to over 490 of her Poems On-Line. The Poems On-Line page also has links to large on-line collections. The Emily Dickinson Random Epigram Machine generates a different epigram each time you visit.

This page is a repository of links to information about her. We have a section on her life, the e-mail discussion list (emweb), other references to her, and a list of frequently asked questions or "FAQ." This site also has a page of Dickinsonian products & services and a page of related poet and poetry links. Please send me any suggestions you have or links you find.

If you are a student and you have a research paper, interpretation, or presentation to do for school, please visit this students' page. You'll find information to help you find Emily Dickinson information online and advice on how to approach ED email mailing lists with questions.

Her Life

Here is a brief biography, another one, a bio with some family history and a bibliography, and a two page biography. The Academy of American Poets has another brief biography with a nice enlarged version of her photograph and a brief bibliography. Virtual Emily is a nicely done biography accompanied by photographs.

Some important dates in her life are arranged in a timeline.

A brief Publishing History by Tim Morris.

Dickinson's Obituary "from The Springfield Republican, May 18, 1886 -- on the editorial page, an unsigned obituary (written by Susan Dickinson, Emily's sister-in-law)"

Selected letters she wrote to her mentor, Mr. Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

A few letters written to Susan Dickinson that are included in the first chapter of Martha Nell Smith's Open Me Carefully.

The Dickinson Homestead. Another description of it.

Summary of the Annenberg/CPB Project's program on Dickinson and comments on her life.

The Jones Library in Amherst has special collections.

Links to Pictures

The only known photograph of her, a variation of the photo, the headstone of her grave, her garden and bedroom, and Dr. Linda Rowlett as the poet in the family home (Amherst, Massachusetts). Pictures of the Homestead and Dickinson's family and friends are located throughout Virtual Emily.

Other References

If you're looking for a picture, T-shirt, book, CD-ROM, video, or other stuff related to her, you may find it on my Dickinsonian page. Here are non-commercial links about her.

The objectives of the Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS) are

To encourage the study and appreciation of Emily Dickinson,
To organize international conferences and to sponsor local chapters,
To sponsor two publications: The EDIS Bulletin and The Emily Dickinson Journal.
To establish a Center for Dickinson Studies, to develop a Foundation to help maintain the Dickinson-Bianchi houses, and to support research collections.

Poetry, Word Play, and Intellectual Pleasure: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts in the Undergraduate Classroom
Kitchen Table Poetics: Maid Margaret Maher and Her Poet Emily Dickinson by Aífe Murray. This is part of the Language as Object: Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Art exhibit at the Mead Art Museum.
Radical Scatters is an archive by the University of Michigan Press that will archive fragments of Dickinson's late compositional stage.
Audio recordings of Julie Harris reading some of her poems and letters.
Dr. Linda Rowlett plays her in a traveling multimedia show with Jeff Lindemann presenting her life, times, and works called, "My Letter To The World."
Joyce Carol Oates as our respected writer (80k jpeg) and JCO on ED. (Who is JCO? Here is a brief biography of her.)
Emily Dickinson Hall at Hampshire College.
Public School 75, the Emily Dickinson School, is on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It's a magnet school for language and literature, with a Writer in Residence program and a school-based theatrical company. P.S. 75 was named one of the 142 top public schools in the country by Redbook magazine (Apr 95) for the second consecutive year.
There is an Emily Dickinson Elementary in Bozeman, Montana.
The Emily Dickinson School is a hypothetical school designed by three students in 1993.
Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People (Cobblestone Publishing Inc.; 7 School Street; Peterborough, NH 03458. Telephone 603-924-7209) had a special issue on ED March, 1995, vol 16, issue 3.
Three essays from The Atlantic Monthly entitled The Poetry of Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson's Letters, and Emily Dickinson (Un)discovered.
Reckless Genius by GALWAY KINNELL is a short essay on Dickinson that accompanies a dicussion forum.
The Dickinson Editing Collective's Dickinson Electronic Archives . This site plans on archiving images of the actual manuscripts to give readers a sense of her "visual poetics" -- something that may be lost in printed versions.
The Christian Science Monitor has a brief review of Franklin's new edition of The Complete Poems.
Tim Morris gives information on how to telnet to a system (like a MOO) that allows you to interact with a Virtual Emily.

We have links to other discussion lists and poet and poetry pages, too.

* This bio and links are from Amherst University

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