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Authors: Jerome Charyn

A Loaded Gun (34 page)

Rimbaud,
116
,
205

Robert Frost Library,
154–55

Roberts Brothers of Boston,
26
,
103

A Room of One's Own
(Woolf),
82

Root, Abiah,
28
,
142–43
,
207

“A Route of Evanescence” [Fr1489A],
35

Rowing in Eden
(Smith, M. N.),
191

Sacks, Oliver,
204–5
,
208
,
209–10

Saint-Rémy, France,
210–11

Sand, George,
22
,
89
,
94–95

Scarlet prison,
63
,
208
,
212

Schopenhauer, Arthur,
204

Scott, Kate.
See
Anthon, Kate Scott Turner

“Secrets of the Pen: Emily Dickinson's Handwriting” (Shapiro),
195–96

seductiveness, of Emily,
17
,
18
,
20
,
22
,
32
,
103

servants

      
Irish,
95–96
,
98
,
188

      
Maher as,
95–97
,
102–6

Sewall, Richard B.,
59
,
74
,
98
,
185
,
215

sexuality, of Emily

      
as ambiguous,
22
,
24–26
,
30–31
,
45
,
76
,
93
,
160
,
203
,
212
,
216

      
fears of,
31

      
Patterson on,
108
,
143–44

      
riddle of,
108
,
216

      
as seductive,
17
,
18
,
20
,
22
,
32
,
103

Sexual Persona
(Paglia),
135

sexual relations, nineteenth century,
31
,
54–55
,
148

shadow boxes

      
of Cornell,
112–13
,
116–20
,
121–25
,
138
,
175
,
181
,
216–17

      
as nineteenth century women's art,
119–20

Shakespeare, William,
21
,
37
,
80
,
91–92
,
204

      
Emily influenced by,
22
,
32
,
153
,
166
,
186
,
207

      
Emily's favorite,
146
,
166
,
197

      
Woolf's imaginary sister of,
87–89
,
92
,
93
,
158

Shapiro, Susanne,
195–96

“She dealt her pretty words like Blades” [Fr458],
166–67

“She rose to His Requirement” [Fr857],
61–62

Simic, Charles,
118
,
124–25
,
127

“Simon Legree” (fictional character),
200–201

The Single Hound
(Bianchi),
149

Smith, Grace,
69–70

Smith, Martha Gilbert,
150

Smith, Martha Nell,
135
,
141
,
191
,
193

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll,
48
,
148

Snively, Susan,
102

“Snow,”
99
,
163

Solomon, Deborah,
125

Sontag, Susan,
73–74
,
77

“The Soul has Bandaged moments” [Fr360],
19
,
54
,
82
,
168

“The Spider holds a Silver Ball” [Fr513],
22
,
23
,
172

“A Spider sewed at Night” [Fr1163A],
171

split persona,
25

Spock, Benjamin,
115

Spooner, J. C.,
142

Springfield, Massachusetts,
134
,
141
,
142
,
152
,
214
,
215
,
216

Springfield Republican,
96
,
150
,
167
,
184

stamp collage,
94–95

Stearns, Frazer,
81

Stebbins, Lafayette,
59

Stern, Bert,
132

Stowe, Calvin,
189

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
147
,
188–90
,
200–201

      
Civil War and,
189–90

      
Sue's hosting of,
198–99

Sue.
See
Dickinson, Susan Gilbert

suitors,
17
,
72–73
,
107
,
142

      
Higginson as,
23

      
Lord as,
18
,
216

      
in Master Letters,
187

A Summer of Hummingbirds
(Benfey),
94

Swift, Jonathan,
160

Taglioni, Marie,
118–19

Tate, Allen,
33–34
,
107–8
,
160

temper, of father,
59–60
,
64
,
65

terror, of Emily,
28
,
62–63

This Republic of Suffering
(Faust),
169–70

“Those—dying then” [Fr1581],
22

“The Tint I cannot take—is best” [Fr696],
193–94

“'Tis Seasons since the Dimpled War” [Fr1551],
85–86

“Title divine—is mine!” [Fr194],
25
,
31
,
45
,
165
,
203

Todd, Mabel Loomis,
19
,
27
,
37–38
,
69
,
149
,
156
,
190

Topps 2008 American Heritage Baseball Trading Card #6,
135

Toward the Blue Peninsula (For Emily Dickinson),
122–24
,
127

Tuckerman, Edward,
161

Turner, Campbell,
109

Twain, Mark,
28
,
134
,
136

Ulysses
(Joyce),
190

Uncle Tom's Cabin
(Stowe),
189–90
,
199–201

universe,
209–10

Updike, John,
205–6

Utica Female Academy,
108
,
198

Utopia Parkway,
117
,
118
,
121
,
125
,
126
,
131

Vaill, Sarah,
53–54

van Gogh, Theo,
212

van Gogh, Vincent,
210–11

van Gogh, Willemien,
211

Vendler, Helen,
62
,
140
,
147
,
194

“Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson” (Rich),
21
,
144

Villella, Edward,
129

violence, of Emily's poetry,
99
,
144
,
153
,
163
,
182
,
201–2

Wadsworth, Charles,
17–18
,
104
,
149

Ward, Samuel G.,
27

Ward, Theodora,
194–95

Warhol, Andy,
125

Werner, Marta L.

      
early years of,
178–79

      
on fascicles,
191

      
on fragments,
154
,
156
,
158
,
159–60
,
162
,
164–65

      
Gorgeous Nothings
and,
175–78
,
180–84

      
and Howe, Susan,
179–80

      
on writing style,
192
,
193
,
194
,
195

“We shun because we prize her Face” [Fr1430A],
215

“What mystery pervades a well!” [Fr1433A],
169

“When I have seen the Sun emerge” [Fr1095],
172

“When I hoped, I recollect” [Fr493],
144–45

“When they begin, if Robins may” [Fr1042],
168

Whicher, George,
108

whip lash language,
19
,
22
,
76
,
124
,
146
,
202

white dress,
21
,
139
,
140
,
152
,
206
,
208

      
Emily hiding in,
32
,
33
,
92
,
163
,
203

      
as iconic,
20
,
25
,
135
,
211

      
Murray on,
98

      
as performance,
37

White Heat
(Wineapple),
74

Wild Nights!
(Oates),
136

“Wild Nights” [Fr269],
136
,
141
,
144
,
166

Williams, Henry Willard,
80

Wilson, Edmund,
189–90

Wineapple, Brenda,
74

Winters, Yvor,
107

witchcraft, of Emily's poetry,
32
,
34
,
82
,
164
,
189
,
201
,
206
,
208

“A Woe of Ecstasy” [Fr1599] fragment,
161–62
,
164

Wolff, Cynthia Griffin,
70

women.
See also
nineteenth century

      
Cornell and,
117
,
119

      
in Elizabethan England,
87

Woolf, Virginia,
22
,
87–89
,
91
,
92
,
93
,
158

writing aversion, of mother,
46
,
59

Writing Degree Zero
(Barthes),
166

writing style,
28
,
38–39
,
153–54
,
168–74

      
contradictions in,
159–60
,
167
,
172
,
194
,
201

      
dashes in,
25
,
26
,
99
,
155
,
160
,
166
,
186
,
195
,
207

      
Emily's relationship to words in,
204–5

      
handwriting and,
27
,
94
,
156
,
191
,
194–96

      
Howe, Susan, on,
66
,
141
,
186
,
192
,
193
,
207

      
influences of,
22
,
32
,
153
,
166
,
186
,
207

      
left-handedness and,
207

      
Leyda's “omitted center” of,
29–30
,
157

      
riddles of,
29
,
30
,
111
,
127
,
165
,
186
,
204

      
Werner on,
192
,
193
,
194
,
195

      
whip lash language in,
19
,
22
,
76
,
124
,
146
,
202

The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson
(Leyda),
29
,
56
,
157

Yellow Eye

      
of Emily,
25
,
30
,
68
,
142
,
150
,
160
,
163
,
193
,
213

      
of God,
193

      
in poem,
24
,
202

“Yellow Whip” [Fr1248],
202

zero at the bone imagery,
19
,
153
,
184

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