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In 1847 Edward Dickinson's daughter Emily was seventeen, a student
at Mary Lyon's female seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in South
Hadley, Massachusetts. Thrilled by the challenges of her
education,...
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In 1847 Edward Dickinson's daughter Emily was seventeen, a student
at Mary Lyon's female seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in South
Hadley, Massachusetts. Thrilled by the challenges of her education,
yet repressed by the school atmosphere, she began writing letters
home and to the friends she felt lonely for----passionate letters
that reveled in bubbling and irreverent mischief and declared the
affectionate intensity of the budding poet. Later, after her death
at the age of fifty-five, friends and relatives exchanged
misunderstandings of the woman they had known----and of the poetic
treasure that they had no sure way of evaluating. Out of these
sixty-six imagined letters, Judith Farr, herself a poet and
Dickinson scholar, has created a brilliant novel, which, written in
the language of Emily Dickinson's contemporaries, lays out the
entire emotional spectrum of her life. We see the young Emily
groping toward poetic expression. We share the bewilderment of her
teachers and friends as the girl reacts with the ingenuity of
genius to people, books, and events. We marvel at her private
letters "To a Mysterious Person."We smile with her at the confusion
of others as they struggle to keep up with the poet's imagination,
at those who try to "correct" her mode of expression. We share the
experience of the first man to take her photograph. We watch her
die, dreadfully and prematurely. When we are done, we have shared
in a wondrous mystery, for we are the only ones allowed to know who
Emily Dickinson was: these letters are written to us. As Diane Wood
Middlebrook has written, "This work of fiction---meticulously
researched, delicately attuned to the language of the
times---provides an explanation more persuasive than any biography
ever will, of what happened to the girl on the brink of womanhood
to make her the person who wrote those poems. A startling good
read." "Peculiar, incandescent, astonishing" -The New Yorker
