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Endnotes

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: The Selected Bibliography on pages 235–44 includes full references with all bibliographic details pertaining to the abbreviated citations used within this endnote section with the exception of the works of Shakespeare, which have been cited here in full. Each endnote starts with the page number on which the cited text begins.

Author's Note

8
        
“People like us”
: Overbye.

O
NE
: Zero at the Bone

17
      
“But always, from his polite replies”
: Luce, p. 63.

17
      
“But I'll have you know”
: ibid., p. 70.

18
      
“His voice haunted me”
: ibid., p. 71.

20
      
“For months, for years”
: Rich, p. 158.

20
      
“Narrowed-down by her early”
: ibid., pp. 159–60.

20
      
“I have come to imagine”
: ibid., p. 160.

21
      
“Here I became again”
: ibid., p. 161.

22
      
“the corseting of women's bodies”
: ibid.

22
      
“It is always what is under pressure”
: ibid., p. 162.

24
      
“I think it is a poem”
: ibid., pp. 172–73.

24
      
“If there is a female consciousness”
: ibid., p. 174.

25
      
“an extremely painful and dangerous”
: ibid., p. 175.

26
      
“wrote for the relief of”
: Higginson, “An Open Portfolio,” p. 392.

27
      
“My Dear Mr. Higginson”
: Bingham,
Ancestors' Brocades,
pp. 169–70.

29
      
“the deliberate skirting of the obvious”
: Leyda,
Years and Hours,
vol. 1, p. xxi.

29
      
“
isolates
her”
: ibid., p. xx.

29
      
“she wrote more
in time
”
: ibid., p. xx.

30
      
“rag-picking method”
: ibid., p. xxiii.

30
      
“riddling ellipsis”
: Paglia, p. 624.

31
      
“When Katie walks”
: Leyda,
Years and Hours,
vol. 1, p. 367.

31
      
“with her dog, & Lantern!”
: ibid., p. 367.

32
      
“a helpless agoraphobic”
: Gilbert and Gubar, p. 583.

34
      
“Cotton Mather would have burned her”
: Tate, p. 27.

34
      
“We did an archaeological dig”
: Benfey, Interview.

34
      
“We know of no new friends”
: Habegger, p. 193.

T
WO
: The Two Emilys—and the Earl

40
      
“One exaggerates, but it sometimes seems”
: Blackmur, p. 80.

40
      
“the playful ambiguity of a kitten”
: ibid., p. 86.

43
      
“shallow, self-centered, ineffectual”
: Cody, p. 42.

43
      
“
infantile
dependence”
: ibid., p. 47.

43
      
“one is led to conclude”
: ibid.

43
      
“great genius is not to be distinguished”
: Habegger, p. 622.

43
      
“truly a madwoman”
: Gilbert and Gubar, p. 583.

44
      
“hated her peculiarities”
: Bingham,
Ancestors' Brocades,
p. 86.

45
      
“too uncertain of her attractiveness”
: Cody, p. 96.

45
      
“suffered the tormenting paralysis”
: Howe,
My Emily Dickinson,
p. 60.

45
      
“with Promethean ambition”
: ibid., p. 18.

46
      
“though I've always had a great aversion”
: Bingham,
Emily Dickinson's Home,
p. 89.

47
      
“The fire-flies hold their lanterns high”
: Sewall,
Life of Emily Dickinson,
p. 251.

48
      
“did not form an isolated and oppressed”
: Smith-Rosenberg, pp. 9–10.

48
      
“Girls routinely slept together”
: ibid., p. 22.

48
      
“but a shadowy appearance”
: ibid., p. 2.

48
      
“Women of Dickinson's class and century”
: Howe,
My Emily Dickinson,
p. 84.

50
      
“for, I think, if you intend to be seen”
: Dickinson and Norcross, p. 172.

51
      
“I cannot tell when I shall visit you again”
: ibid., p. 152.

51
      
“I know not what is in store for us”
: ibid., p. 137.

51
      
“the lawful promoter”
: ibid., p. 24.

51
      
“not to send another of such”
: ibid., p. 20.

51
      
“Pleasant dreams to you dear Edward”
: ibid., p. 134.

51
      
“My education is my inheritance”
: ibid., p. 58.

52
      
“I have many friends call upon me”
: ibid., p. 206.

52
      
“Have I not reason to fear”
: ibid., p. 173.

52
      
“with as little noise as possible”
: ibid., p. 206.

53
      
“Sister! Why that burning tear”
: Habeggger, p.67.

53
      
“Language is first made”
: Murray, p. 116.

53
      
“No language acquisition”
: ibid.

54
      
“I know of no one that I should prefer”
: Leyda,
Years and Hours,
vol. 1, pp. 15–16.

54
      
“A warmer relationship with her mother”
: Cody, p. 103.

55
      
“between the abrupt ending”
: Bianchi,
Face to Face,
p. 103.

56
      
“Just after we passed Mr Clapps”
: Leyda,
Years and Hours,
vol. 1, pp. 20–21.

56
      
“she calls it the
moosic
”
: ibid., p. 21.

57
      
“She speaks of her father & mother”
: ibid., pp. 21–22.

57
      
“Emily— no wonder you are astonished to hear”
: ibid., p. 23.

58
      
“I cant tell you how lonely I was”
: ibid., p. 22.

59
      
“relatively inelastic spirit”
: Habegger, p. 32.

59
      
“this fluttery, timid woman”
: Sewall,
Life of Emily Dickinson,
p. 89.

59
      
“the mother, the usual provider”
: Gordon, p. 27.

59
      
“Even Mrs. Dickinson's distaste for writing”
: Sewall, Letter to Leyda.

59
      
“went secretly to the paper hanger”
: Leyda,
Years and Hours,
vol. 1, p. 16.

60
      
“I attended church all day”
: Wolff, p. 63.

60
      
“And I do indeed truly rejoice”
: Leyda,
Years and Hours,
vol. 1, p. 42.

60
      
“primitive, complex, and continuous”
: Murray, p. 62.

60
      
“key silent texts”
: Murray, p. 100.

62
      
“will wear away”
: Vendler, p. 353.

64
      
“complained about boils, dizziness”
: Habegger, p. 106.

65
      
“Oh! Dear! Father is killing the horse”
: ibid., p. 252.

66
      
“boundaries within boundaries”
: Murray, p. 154.

66
      
“she explored the implications”
: Howe,
My Emily Dickinson,
p. 11.

68
      
“Father says in fugitive moments”
: Sewall,
Life of Emily Dickinson,
p. 66.

68
      
“We cannot say of this woman”
: Blackmur, p. 85.

T
HREE
: Daemon Dog

69
      
“huge dog stalked solemnly beside them”
: Leyda,
Years and Hours,
vol. 2, p. 21.

69
      
“carelessness of form”
: Wineapple, p. 275.

70
      
“Major Hunt interested her more”
: Leyda,
Years and Hours,
vol. 2, p. 14.

71
      
“Carlo seems to have accompanied Emily”
: Cody, p. 360.

71
      
“Dogs began as allies”
: Gopnik, “Dog Story,” p. 49.

71
      
“tamer, man-friendly wolves”
: ibid.

71
      
“The dog will bark at a burglar”
: ibid., p. 51.

73
      
“Silent not merely for want of encouragement”
: Sontag, p. 142.

74
      
“all too common reality of a woman”
: ibid.

74
      
“as an unfortunate eccentricity”
: Sewall,
Life of Emily Dickinson,
p. 89.

74
      
“her backbone made of steel”
: Wineapple, p. 184.

74
      
“seems to exist outside of time”
: ibid., p. 101.

75
      
“I sometimes shudder”
: Bingham,
Ancestors' Brocades,
p. 86.

76
      
“are the only creatures that have learned”
: Gopnik, “Dog Story,” p. 51.

76
      
“tramping abroad with her dog”
: Murray, p. 97.

79
      
“prophetic vision of intergalactic nothingness”
: Paglia, p. 655.

82
      
“abattoir”
: ibid., p. 650.

83
      
“had a pretended version”
: Gopnik, “Dog Story,” pp. 49–50.

85
      
“All power . . . including the power of love”
: Howe,
My Emily Dickinson,
p. 116.

85
      
“only mystery beyond mystery”
: ibid.

F
OUR
: Judith Shakespeare and Margaret Maher

87
      
“For it is a perennial puzzle”
: Woolf, p. 41.

87
      
“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance”
: ibid., pp. 43–44.

88
      
“as agog to see the world”
: ibid., p. 47.

88
      
“a gift like her brother's”
: ibid., p. 48.

88
      
“the heat and violence of the poet's heart”
: ibid.

88
      
“would certainly have gone crazed”
: ibid., p. 49.

88
      
“That refuge she would have sought”
: ibid., p. 50.

89
      
“spine crib”
: Adams, p. 7.

91
      
“Stimulating and boring”
: Browning, p. xxxv.