A Loaded Gun (32 page)

Lampoon,
206

left-handed writing,
207

Leigh, Augusta,
72

letters

      
to Austin,
28
,
29
,
34
,
46
,
65
,
66

      
to Bowles, Sam,
81
,
89
,
177
,
192
,
215

      
Carlo (dog) in,
70–71
,
78–79
,
80

      
to Chickering,
90

      
to Fanny and Loo,
58
,
96–97
,
104
,
153

      
to father,
67

      
to Higginson,
23
,
28
,
31
,
32
,
33
,
40
,
42
,
78–80
,
81
,
82
,
84
,
90
,
177
,
209

      
to Jackson,
162–63

      
to Kate,
110
,
146
,
192

      
Leyda on,
27

      
to Lord,
18

      
to Maher,
105

      
Master Letters,
18
,
37
,
63
,
100
,
104
,
149–50
,
165
,
187

      
prison in,
80

      
puzzling nature of,
37

      
to Smith, Martha G.,
150

      
to Sue,
75
,
82
,
170
,
177
,
191
,
192
,
195–96

      
Sue's cache of,
19

      
Todd's cache of,
19

lexicon

      
balloon imagery in,
100–101
,
102

      
of Emily's poems,
19
,
22
,
29
,
30
,
43
,
46
,
66
,
158
,
178
,
197

      
of fragments,
163–64

      
mermaids in,
84
,
135

Leyda, Jay,
29
,
59
,
104
,
157

      
on
Aurora Leigh
and Emily,
91

      
on Carlo (dog),
70

      
and Cornell,
112–13
,
131
,
157

      
on Emily's stay with aunt,
56

      
on fragments,
157–58

      
at Homestead,
157–58

      
on Kate and Emily,
143–44

      
on letters,
27

      
life of,
157

      
“Lovely” pencil for,
113
,
123

      
on Maher,
95
,
98

      
on puzzles and riddles,
29
,
31
,
73

      
on writing style,
29–30
,
157

liberator,
154
,
155

Liberman, Alexander,
119

“Like Men and Women Shadows walk” [Fr964],
165

Lincoln, Abraham,
170
,
189

Lincoln, Mary Todd,
15

Lives Like Loaded Guns
(Gordon),
59

loaded gun image,
24–25
,
82
,
84
,
142
,
150–51
,
193
,
202
,
213
,
217

locomotive stamp, in poem,
95

Longsworth, Polly,
134
,
136
,
141

Loo.
See
Norcross, Louise

Lord, Otis P. (Judge),
18
,
20
,
85
,
99
,
104
,
165
,
178
,
196
,
216

“A loss of something ever felt I” [Fr1072],
45

“Lost and Found: Emily Dickinson's Unknown Daguerreotypist” (Bernhard),
134

“Lovely” pencil,
113
,
123

Luce, William,
15–16
,
17
,
18–19
,
20
,
21
,
25

lull, in creativity,
80–81
,
82

Lyman, Joseph,
63
,
67–68
,
81
,
126

Lyon, Mary,
35–36
,
206

MacLeish, Archibald,
107

“Madelyn Krim” (fictional character),
136–40

madwoman image,
32
,
33
,
43–44
,
104
,
144
,
208

The Madwoman in the Attic
(Gilbert and Gubar),
32

Maher, Margaret “Maggie,”
188

      
on burning of Emily's poems,
99
,
102

      
daguerreotype saved by,
103
,
135

      
as Emily's ally,
95
,
96–97
,
104–6

      
influence on Emily,
98–99
,
102
,
104

      
letter to,
105

      
Leyda on,
95
,
98

      
poems stored by,
99
,
102–3

      
as servant to Dickinson family,
95–97
,
102–6

Maid as Muse
(Murray),
53
,
98

maids.
See
servants

male lovers, alleged,
149–50

male prejudice,
107–8

Malkovich, John,
135

““Mama” never forgets her birds” [Fr130],
58

manuscript fragment,
112–13
,
113

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
(Sacks),
204

Maracci, Carmelita,
128

marriage

      
Austin and Sue's,
23
,
32
,
109
,
144
,
147
,
148

      
Emily on,
31
,
45
,
76

      
Kate's,
108
,
109
,
110
,
111

      
nineteenth century,
54–55

masks, of Emily,
28
,
32
,
33
,
45
,
77
,
78
,
100
,
101
,
142

“Master Letters,”
18
,
37
,
63
,
100
,
104
,
149–50
,
165
,
187

Mather, Cotton,
34

Matthews, G. V.,
154

McGann, Jerome,
183

melancholy, of mother,
42
,
46
,
53
,
60
,
63–65
,
93

Melville, Herman,
44
,
107
,
157
,
184

The Melville Log
(Leyda),
157

mentor.
See
preceptor

mermaids

      
Emily as,
59
,
93
,
126
,
148
,
152

      
in Emily's lexicon,
84
,
135

      
in poems,
83–84

      
Vinnie as,
93
,
126
,
127

Milton, John,
89

“Miss Emily's Maggie” (Leyda),
95

Mission to Moscow
(film),
157

“Molly Bloom” (fictional character),
190

Monson, Massachusetts,
49
,
50
,
52
,
53
,
56
,
57
,
60
,
65
,
77

Monson Academy,
49

Montague, Jemima,
52–53
,
55

mother.
See
Dickinson, Emily Norcross

Motherwell, Robert,
119

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary,
34–36
,
44
,
46
,
55
,
65
,
195
,
206

Murray, Aífe,
53
,
60
,
76
,
98–99
,
102
,
103
,
105

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

“My basket holds—just—Firmaments” [Fr358],
38

My Emily Dickinson
(Howe),
45

“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun” [Fr764],
24–25
,
82
,
84
,
142
,
150–51
,
193
,
202
,
213
,
217

mythologizing, of Emily,
19–20
,
36
,
142
,
149

Nabokov, Vladimir,
131

“A narrow Fellow in the Grass” [J986],
19
,
184

Nerval, Gérard de,
116

Newfoundland dogs,
71–72

Newton, Ben,
149

New York City Ballet,
130

“Nick Greene” (fictional character),
88

Nijinska, Bronislava,
128

Nijinska, Vaslav,
128

Niles, Thomas,
150

nineteenth century women,
21
,
22
,
30
,
45
,
49
,
74
,
88–89
,
158

      
assemblages and shadow boxes of,
119–20

      
childbirth for,
55

      
Howe, Susan, on,
48
,
158

      
marriage for,
54–55

      
sexual relations of,
31
,
54–55
,
158

Norcross, Betsy Fay (grandmother),
53

Norcross, Frances “Fanny” (cousin),
42
,
80
,
192

      
letters to,
58
,
96–97
,
104
,
153

Norcross, Joel (grandfather),
50
,
53–54
,
205

Norcross, Lavinia (aunt),
49
,
52–53
,
56–58
,
77
,
102

Norcross, Loring,
57–58

Norcross, Louise “Loo” (cousin),
42
,
77
,
80
,
192
,
199
,
203

      
letters to,
58
,
96–97
,
104
,
153

North, William C.,
134

Oates, Joyce Carol,
136–40
,
141
,
143
,
165
,
210

“Of God we ask one favor” [Fr1675B],
163

“Of nearness to her sundered Things” [Fr337],
139–40

“omitted center,” in writing style,
29–30
,
157

Ondine,
119
,
121
,
128
,
129
,
130

“An Open Portfolio” (Higginson),
26–27

“Ophelia” (fictional character),
166

Orlando
(Woolf),
22

Paglia, Camille,
30
,
82
,
135

Paradise Lost
(Milton),
89

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

Patriotic Gore
(Wilson),
189–90

Patterson, Rebecca,
125
,
135

      
on Emily's appearance,
142

      
on Emily's love for Kate,
86
,
108
,
109–12
,
122
,
143–46
,
216

Pearl Jail,
58
,
66–67
,
91
,
144
,
147

Pepin, Susan,
143
,
214–15

performance artist, Emily as,
32
,
37
,
38
,
63
,
64
,
100–101

personas, of Emily

      
as huntress and predator,
142
,
150
,
152
,
217