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Lyndall Gordon's Lives Like Loaded Guns explores the family secrets of the reclusive 19th-century poet. Gordon theorizes that Dickinson may have... Biography Speculates Emily Dickinson Had Epilepsy A ...

The cover of the little book is green with pink lilies. Love Poems by Emily Dickinson, published by Peter Pauper Press in 1950, opens with a short biographical note. Born in Amherst in 1830, dead in ...

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In the 1800s, American poet Emily Dickinson was considered an eccentric for being a woman in that era with unique writing capabilities. Many of her poems deal with themes of death, immortality, gender ...