Emily Dickinson (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Polly Longsworth
- First Published: 1965
- Time of Work: 1845–1886
- Setting: Amherst and South Hadley, Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: Emily Dickinson, Helen Hunt Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Josiah Holland, Noah Webster, Jenny Lind, Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Poetry or poets, Writing, New England, Emotions, Biography
- Locales: Amherst, MA
Form and Content
In Emily Dickinson: Her Letter to the World, Polly Longsworth has created a portrait of the enigmatic nineteenth century writer with the sincerity and attention to detail that a loving neighbor might use in recounting a special and private anecdote to a friend. Beginning with the Amherst College commencement in August of 1845, Longsworth takes the reader down the streets of Amherst, Massachusetts, and into the Dickinson homestead. Considered a mansion by Noah Webster’s definition, this residence housed the creative genius that the world later came to...
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