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Palgrave MacMillan Emily Dickinson A Literary Life 2013 Edition by L. Wagner-Martin
With special attention to Emily Dickinson's growth into a poet, this literary biographical study charts Dickinson's hard-won brilliance as she worked, largely alone, to become the unique American woman writer of the nineteenth century. Table of contents :- List of Illustrations Preface 1. Reaching 1850 2. Dickinson's Search, to Find the Poem of Her Being 3. Losses into Art 4. Dickinson's Expanding Readership 5. Dickinson and War 6. Colonel Higginson as Mentor 7. Life Without Home, For the Last Time 8. Dickinson's Fascicles, Beginning and Endings 9. The Painful Interim 10. To Define Belief 11. 1865, The Late Miracle 12. Maintaining Urgency 13. Colonel Higginson, Appearing 14. 1870-1873 15. The Beginning of the Calendar of Deaths 16. Surviving Death 17. 'Mother's Hopeless Illness' 18. Courtships 19. 'The Poets light but Lamps' 20. The Loving Dickinson Bibliography Index