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Index

Abromson, Herman,
140
,
141

Adventures in the Arts
(Hartley),
112

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(Twain),
134

After Great Pain: The Inner Life of Emily Dickinson
(Cody),
43

agoraphobia,
15
,
32
,
40
,
41
,
43
,
68
,
90
,
164
,
199

Aiken, Conrad,
107

Akhmatova, Anna,
179

Alice in Wonderland
(Carroll),
84–85
,
131
,
160
,
183

“Alone and in a Circumstance” [Fr1174],
93–95

ambiguous sexuality, of Emily,
22
,
24–26
,
30–31
,
45
,
76
,
93
,
160
,
203
,
212
,
216

The American Woman's Home
(Beecher and Stowe),
188–89

Amherst.
See
Evergreens manor
;
Homestead

Amherst College,
55
,
70
,
81
,
90
,
161

      
Austin at,
72

      
Dickinson, Samuel, as cofounder of,
49–50

      
Dickinson archives at,
157
,
175–76
,
213

      
Robert Frost Library of,
154–55

Ancestor's Brocades: The Literary Debut of Emily Dickinson
(Bingham),
121

Andreasen, Nancy,
208

androgynous girls

      
Cornell's obsession with,
117
,
118
,
122
,
131

      
Emily as,
45
,
122

      
Sue as,
144

Angier, Natalie,
210

“Annals of Evergreens” (Dickinson, S. G.),
198

Anthon, John,
110
,
111

Anthon, Kate Scott Turner “Kate”

      
blue peninsula imagery about,
111
,
122
,
146
,
147
,
166

      
Bowles, Sam and,
30
,
109
,
216

      
as Cleopatra,
146

      
as Condor Kate,
110
,
111
,
112
,
146
,
148
,
150
,
156
,
165
,
166
,
178
,
186
,
192

      
in daguerreotype with Emily,
141–42
,
143
,
150–51
,
215

      
Emily's feelings for,
30–31
,
86
,
108
,
109–12
,
122
,
143–48
,
215–17

      
Emily's letters to,
110
,
146
,
192

      
garters for,
30–31

      
Leyda on Emily and,
143–44

      
marriage of,
108
,
109
,
110
,
111

      
Patterson on,
86
,
108
,
109–12
,
122
,
143–46
,
216

      
in poems,
144–45
,
146–47
,
215–16

      
Sue's relationship with,
108–9
,
144
,
147
,
198

Antony and Cleopatra
(Shakespeare)

      
Emily as Antony from,
32
,
146
,
166
,
194
,
196–97

      
Kate as Cleopatra from,
146

      
Sue as Cleopatra from,
32
,
148
,
194
,
197

apocalypticism, of Emily,
92
,
140
,
142
,
162
,
170
,
201–2
,
206
,
213

appearance, of Emily,
150
.
See also
daguerreotypes

      
Emily on,
89–90
,
142

      
freckles,
20
,
73
,
89–90
,
93
,
109

      
Higginson on,
16
,
142

      
as kangaroo,
90
,
142
,
152

      
Patterson on,
142

      
red hair,
53
,
74
,
76
,
122
,
138
,
192

Aquirre, Anthony,
209

archives

      
Dickinson, at Amherst College,
157
,
175–76
,
213

      
electronic,
135
,
154
,
158

aristocratic and patrician mien,
71
,
81
,
95
,
96
,
106
,
201
,
206

Ashbery, John,
125

assemblages.
See
shadow boxes

astigmatism and eye irritation,
44
,
80
,
82
,
143
,
191

Auden, W. H.,
37

Aurora Leigh
(Browning, E.),
90–91
,
111

Austin.
See
Dickinson, Austin

Auvers-sur-Oise, France,
210–12

Balanchine, George,
128–32

ballerinas

      
Cerrito,
116–17
,
118–19
,
120–21
,
122
,
123
,
124
,
125
,
128
,
129

      
Emily as,
120–21
,
122
,
163

      
Kent,
117
,
125
,
128–32

      
Maracci,
128

      
Nijinska, Bronislava,
128

balloon imagery,
100–101
,
102

Barthes, Roland,
166

“Battle Hymn of the Republic,”
201

Beecher, Catherine E.,
188–89

Beecher, Lyman,
189

Being John Malkovich,
135

Bell, Currer.
See
Brontë, Charlotte

Belle of Amherst,
15
,
21
,
30
,
45
,
74–75
,
89
,
152
,
201

      
Emily's self-titled,
28

The Belle of Amherst
(Luce),
15–16
,
18
,
20
,
21

Benfey, Christopher,
34
,
35–36
,
37
,
94
,
122–23
,
198
,
201
,
204

Bernhard, Mary Elizabeth Kromer,
134

Bervin, Jen,
175–77
,
180
,
182–83

Bianchi, Martha Dickinson (niece),
19
,
55
,
142
,
149
,
207

Big Bang,
209

Bingham, Millicent Todd,
19
,
103
,
121
,
157
,
216

      
on daguerreotype,
133–34
,
135

birth

      
Austin's,
53

      
Emily's,
53

      
mother's,
49

      
Vinnie's,
56

The Birth-mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History
(Howe, S.),
207

bisexuality

      
Emily's,
203
,
206

      
Sue's,
148
,
149

Blackmur, R. P.,
40
,
41
,
44
,
68
,
107

Blake, William,
171
,
193

blonde assassin imagery [Fr1668],
24
,
30
,
33
,
68
,
82

Bloom, Harold,
153

blue peninsula imagery,
68

      
Cornell's use of,
113–14
,
122–24
,
127
,
181

      
as love for Kate,
111
,
122
,
146
,
147
,
166

Boatswain (dog),
71–72

Bodman, Mrs. Luther W.
See
Smith, Grace

Bolts of Melody: New Poems of Emily Dickinson
(Dickinson, E. E., and Bingham),
121
,
216

Boltwood, Clarinda,
97

booklets, hand-sewn,
21–22
,
27
,
30
,
63
,
81–82
,
96
,
99
,
155
,
191
,
193
,
196

Boston Museum School of Fine Arts,
185

Bowles, Mrs. Sam,
78
,
81

Bowles, Sally,
15

Bowles, Samuel, the younger,
106

Bowles, Samuel “Sam,”
91
,
106
,
192
,
213
,
215

      
Emily's feelings for,
23
,
150

      
Kate's relationship with,
30
,
109
,
216

      
letters to,
81
,
89
,
177
,
192
,
215

      
as preceptor,
24
,
163

      
Springfield Republican
of,
96
,
150
,
167
,
184

      
Sue's feelings for,
198

“The Brain—is wider than the Sky” [Fr598],
32
,
208

Brakhage, Stan,
130

Brontë, Anne,
22
,
158
,
186

Brontë, Charlotte,
22
,
72
,
73
,
89
,
158
,
186

Brontë, Emily,
22
,
158
,
186

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,
22
,
89–91
,
110–11
,
158
,
192

Browning, Robert,
89

Buffalo Bill,
124

Bugaku
(ballet),
129
,
130
,
131

Burson, Nancy,
141

“By homely gifts and hindered words” [Fr1611],
183–84

Byron, Lord,
71–72

cabinet photo, of Emily,
121–22

career invalids,
74

Carlo (dog),
23
,
69

      
as daemon,
83
,
85
,
86

      
death of,
80
,
82
,
92
,
95
,
191
,
203

      
in letters,
70–71
,
78–79
,
80

      
as mute confederate,
76
,
78
,
82
,
83
,
85

      
naming of,
72–73

      
Newfoundland breed characteristics

      
in,
71–72

      
in poems,
83–84

Carlo, Sam,
142
,
143
,
213–17

Carroll, Lewis,
84–85
,
131
,
160
,
183