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The life of Emily Dickinson / by Richard B. Sewall.
Van Pelt Library PS1541.Z5 S42 v.1-v.2 v.1 v.2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sewall, Richard B., 1908-2003.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
- Dickinson, Emily.
- Poets, American--19th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Capps, Jack L. (donor) (Capps Dickinson Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes (xxvii, 821 pages, 3 unnumbered pages) : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Emily Dickinson
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1974]
- Contents:
- Volume 1: The problem of the biographer; Forebears And Family: New England Dickinson's and The Puritan Heritage; Samuel Fowler Dickinson; Edward Dickinson; Emily Norcross Dickinson; William Austin Dickinson; Lavinia Norcross Dickinson. "War Between The Houses": Early hostilities; Mabel Loomis Todd and Austin; Austin's marriage; Susan and Emily; Publication of The Poems: Mabel And Austin; Last phase of the quarrel and a late view of Susan; The Dickinson rhetoric and the structure of a life
- Volume 2: Childhood; Schooling; Early friendships I; Early friendships II; Brother and sister; Charles Wadsworth; Samuel Bowles; The Master Letters; Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Helen Hunt Jackson; Dr and Mrs Josiah Gilbert Holland; The Norcross cousins; Otis Phillips Lord; Books and reading; Poet.
- Notes:
- Paged continuously.
- Lining papers of v. 1 illustrated from Emily Dickinson's Herbarium with titles in her own hand.
- Lining papes of v. 2 have samples of Emily Dickinson's handwriting.
- Mustard cloth binding ruled and lettered in gold on spine. Housed in slipcase.
- Includes bibliographical references (volume 2, pages 785-790) and indexes.
- Winner of the National Book Award.
- Local Notes:
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2006 by Brigadier General Jack L. Capps.
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy is 1st edition "first printing 1974".
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy housed in slip case covered with illustrations from Emily Dickinson's Herbarium.
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy has obituary notice cut from New York Times laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0374186960
- OCLC:
- 903011
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