A Loaded Gun (31 page)

“EDickinsonRepliLuxe” (Oates),
136–40
,
141
,
143
,
165
,
210

L'Education sentimentale
(Flaubert),
172–74

1847 daguerreotype,
14
,
133–36
,
137
,
140
,
141
,
143
,
155
,
214–15

1859 daguerreotype,
141–43
,
144
,
146
,
150–51
,
152
,
165
,
186
,
213–15

Eisenstein, Sergei,
157

electronic archives,
135
,
154
,
158

Eliot, Florence “Florrie,”
111–12

Eliot, George,
22
,
89
,
153
,
158

Elizabethan England,
87

Elssler, Fanny,
118

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
22
,
23
,
26
,
66
,
133
,
186

Emily.
See
Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth

Emily Dickinson: A Revelation
(Bingham),
216

Emily Dickinson at age
52
,
141

Emily Dickinson International Society,
141
,
195

Emily Dickinson Museum,
143
,
207
,
212

Emily Dickinson's Home
(Bingham),
134

Emily Dickinson's Open Folios
(Werner),
164
,
192

“Enobarbus” (fictional character),
166

envelope poems,
112
,
154
,
175–78
,
180–84
,
196

eroticism

      
in Master Letters,
187

      
in poems,
31
,
147
,
149
,
150

Evans, Walker,
115

Evergreens manor,
21
,
23
,
75–76
,
93
,
109
,
144
,
147
,
198

eyes

      
astigmatism and irritation of,
44
,
80
,
82
,
143
,
191

      
in daguerreotype,
133
,
135
,
143
,
214–15

Fanny.
See
Norcross, Frances

Farley, Abby,
104

fascicles (booklets),
21–22
,
27
,
30
,
63
,
81–82
,
96
,
99
,
155
,
191
,
193–94
,
196

father.
See
Dickinson, Edward

Faust, Drew Gilpin,
169–70

fears, of heterosexuality,
31

“The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America” (Smith-Rosenberg),
48
,
148

“Finding is the first Act” [Fr910],
36

Flaubert, Gustave,
172–74

“Foreign Lady.”
See
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

fragments,
113
,
152
,
153
,
155

      
The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope-Poems
(Bervin and Werner),
175–78
,
180–84

      
“Grasped by God” [PF
76
],
155

      
house-shaped [Fr1512],
112–13
,
113

      
Johnson on,
155–57

      
lexicon of,
163–64

      
Leyda on,
157–58

      
prison imagery in,
163

      
as radical scatters,
154
,
158
,
159
,
160
,
164
,
165
,
191
,
197

      
used in poems,
159

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

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

Franklin, R. W.,
92
,
182
,
193

freckles,
20
,
73
,
89–90
,
93
,
109

“Frédéric Moreau” (fictional character),
173–74

French Poets and Novelists
(James),
173

Frost, Robert,
107

Fugitive Slave Act,
189

funeral,
38
,
99
,
105

Garbo, Greta,
20
,
21
,
125

Gardner, Tom,
185

garters, for Kate,
30–31

Gauguin, Paul,
210

Gib (nephew),
104
,
170

Gilbert, Sandra M.,
32
,
43

Gilbert, Susan.
See
Dickinson, Susan Gilbert

Gopnik, Adam,
71
,
76
,
83
,
211

Gordon, Lyndall,
59

The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope-Poems
(Bervin and Werner),
175–78
,
180–84

Gould, George,
72–73
,
149

Gould, Glenn,
209

Grangerford, Emmeline,
134

“Grasped by God” [PF76] fragment,
155

Green Mansions
(Hudson),
176

Gubar, Susan,
32
,
43

Gulliver's Travels
(Swift),
160

Gura, Philip,
140–41

Habegger, Alfred,
34
,
43
,
59

Hamlet
(Shakespeare),
166
,
204

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

“Harold Krim” (fictional character),
136–40

Harris, Julie,
15–16
,
18
,
20
,
21

Harte, Bret,
23
,
147

Hartley, Marsden,
112

“He fumbles at your Soul” [Fr477A],
132

“He lived the Life of Ambush” [Fr1571B],
202

Hemingway, Ernest,
136

hiding, in white dress,
32
,
33
,
92
,
163
,
203

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth,
104
,
185
,
207

      
in Civil War,
79
,
170

      
edits of Emily's poetry by,
19

      
on Emily's appearance,
16
,
142

      
Emily's feelings for,
23
,
149–50

      
Emily's letters to,
23
,
28
,
31
,
32
,
33
,
40
,
42
,
78–80
,
81
,
82
,
84
,
90
,
177
,
209

      
Emily's meeting with,
16–17
,
41
,
90

      
on Emily's poetry,
26–27

      
as portrayed in
The Belle of Amherst,
16

      
as preceptor,
17
,
22
,
23–24
,
37
,
163

      
as publisher and editor,
26–27
,
37–38
,
156
,
190

      
‘Queen Recluse' nickname for Emily,
20
,
156
,
199
,
214

Hirschorn, Norbert,
122
,
171

Holland, Mrs. J. G.,
42
,
47
,
63–64

homeless, Emily as,
64
,
158
,
160
,
169

Homestead,
16
,
63
,
95
,
97
,
108
,
121

      
construction of,
53

      
Emily's room in,
21

      
Leyda at,
157–58

      
mother's melancholy in,
42
,
63–65
,
93

      
Pearl Jail in,
58
,
144

Hopper, Edward,
114

Houdini, Harry,
115
,
124

house-shaped poetry fragment [Fr1512],
112–13
,
113

Howe, Julia Ward,
201

Howe, Mark DeWolfe,
184–85

Howe, Susan,
45
,
85

      
early years of,
184–85

      
on 1859 daguerreotype,
186

      
on
Gorgeous Nothings,
182–83

      
on Master Letters,
187

      
on nineteenth century women,
48
,
158

      
Werner and,
179–80

      
on writing style,
66
,
141
,
186
,
192
,
193
,
207

Hudson, W. H.,
176

Hunt, E. B.,
70

Hunt, Helen Fiske,
70

Hunter, Joyce,
125–26

huntress and predator persona,
142
,
150
,
152
,
217

“I am not used to Hope” [Fr535],
68
,
111
.
See also
blue peninsula imagery

“I cannot dance opon my Toes” [Fr381A],
33
,
120
,
124

iconography, of white dress,
20
,
25
,
135
,
211

idiot savant twins,
204–5
,
207
,
208
,
209–10

“I dreaded that first Robin, so” [Fr347],
167–68

“I felt a Cleaving in my Mind” [Fr867B],
76–77

“I heard a Fly buzz—when I died” [Fr591],
129–30

illness, of Emily,
104

influences

      
Maher as,
98–99
,
102
,
104

      
Shakespeare as,
22
,
32
,
153
,
166
,
186
,
207

“In many and reportless places”

[Fr1404],
177–78

innocent persona,
32
,
64

invalids

      
Browning, Elizabeth, as,
89

      
“career,”
74

      
Emily as,
74
,
126

      
mother as,
42
,
60
,
64
,
65
,
74
,
171

Irish immigrants,
95–96
,
98
,
188

“I saw no Way—the Heavens were stitched” [Fr633],
77
,
92

“I shall not murmur if at last” [Fr1429],
146–47

“I started Early—Took my Dog” [Fr656],
83–84

“I stepped from Plank to Plank” [Fr926],
173
,
174

“It feels a shame to be Alive” [Fr524],
81

“I think I was enchanted” [Fr627],
90

“It is solemn to remember that Vastness” [Fr1548],
209

Ivesiana,
130

“I would not paint—a picture” [Fr348],
100–101

Jackson, Helen Hunt,
162–63

James, Alice,
74

James, Henry,
74
,
136
,
173

James, William,
74

Jane Eyre
(Brontë, C.),
72
,
73

Joan of Arc,
15

Johnson, Thomas H.,
155–57
,
179
,
182
,
190–91

Jonze, Spike,
135

Joyce, James,
184
,
190

“Judith Shakespeare” (fictional character),
87–89
,
92
,
93
,
158

kangaroo, Emily as,
90
,
142
,
152

Kate.
See
Anthon, Kate Scott Turner

Kazin, Alfred,
157

Keats, John,
22

Kelley, Tom,
97
,
106

Kent, Allegra,
117
,
125
,
128–32

“King Lear” (fictional character),
51
,
53

“Lady Macbeth” (fictional character),
166