Table of Contents

• Volume One
  • Preface
  • Chronology
  • • 1. The Problem of the Biographer
    
    
    
    
  • Forebears and Family
    • 2. The New England Dickinsons and the Puritan Heritage
    • 3. Samuel Fowler Dickinson
    • 4. Edward Dickinson
    • 5. Emily Norcross Dickinson
    • 6. William Austin Dickinson
    • 7. Lavinia Norcross Dickinson
    
    
    
    
  • “War between the Houses”
    • 8. Early Hostilities
    • 9. Mabel Loomis Todd and Austin
    • 10. Austin’s Marriage
    • 11. Susan and Emily
    • 12. Publication of the Poems: Mabel and Austin
    • 13. Last Phase of the Quarrel and a Late View of Susan
    • 14. The Dickinson Rhetoric and the Structure of a Life
    
    
    
    
  • Appendixes for Volume One
    • I. Vinnie as Stylist, Mimic, Reader, and Poet
    • II. “War between the Houses”: Documents
    
    
    
    
  • References for Volume One
  
  
  
  
• Volume Two
  • • 15. Childhood
    • 16. Schooling
    • 17. Early Friendships I
    • 18. Early Friendships II
    • 19. Brother and Sister
    • 20. Charles Wadsworth
    • 21. Samuel Bowles
    • 22. The Master Letters
    • 23. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
    • 24. Helen Hunt Jackson
    • 25. Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland
    • 26. The Norcross Cousins
    • 27. Otis Phillips Lord
    • 28. Books and Reading
    • 29. The Poet
    
    
    
    
  • Appendixes for Volume Two
    • III. Charles Wadsworth as Husband, Father, and Poet
    • IV. Popular Poetry: Selections from the Springfield Republican, 1858–62
    • V. A Note on the Missing Correspondences
    
    
    
    
  • References for Volume Two
  • Bibliography
  • Index of First Lines
  • Index