Based on more than fifteen years of research in dozens of libraries and archives across five countries, this is the first full-length biography of one of the foremost women writers in Georgian England.

... William Huntington's diary is at BYU Library Special Collections , Provo ... Writings , " ( 1976 ) , 26 . 39. Brown , Giant of the Lord , 33 . 40 ... in author's possession ; Journal of Ethan Barrows , 205 . 45. Hughes , Life ...

Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive. Praise for Open Me Carefully “With spare commentary, Smith . . . and Hart . . . let these letters speak for themselves.

Paying special attention to her experience of faith, Lundin relates Dickinson's life -- as it can be charted through her poems and letters -- to nineteenth-century American political, social, religious, and intellectual history.