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as writer, 100–102
see also Bingham, Millicent Todd
Todd Wildlife Sanctuary, Hog Island, 322
transcendentalism, 10, 11, 352
Transit of Venus, 55, 385
Turner, Clara Newman, 114
Twain, Mark, 96
University of Oslo, 333
Untermeyer, Louis, 250
Van Doren, Mark, 278, 310
Vassar College, 103, 193, 213, 218, 338
Vendler, Helen, 248
Victorian era, 35, 36, 67, 85, 93, 355, 358, 391
Vidal de la Blache, Paul, 228, 353
Volkmann, Robert, 84
Wadsworth, Rev. Charles, xvi, 252
Walsh, John Evangelist, Emily Dickinson in Love, 291
Walter Van Dyke Bingham Fellowship in Psychology, 337
Walton, Edna Lou, 255
Ward, May Alden, 85
Ward, Theodora, 154, 311–12
Warren, Robert Penn, 301
Werner, Marta, 348–49
West, Abigail Farley, 291
West Cemetery, 5, 369
Whicher, George, 256, 284, 297–98, 334
White, Sharon Nancy, 36, 120, 343
Whitman, Walt, 275
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 4
Wilder, John, 12
Wilder, John II, 10
Wilder, Mary Wales Fobes (“Grandma Wilder”), 10, 10, 43, 44–45, 55, 68, 74, 95, 113
Wilder family, 9–11, 10, 12, 13, 98, 326, 339, 340
Wildwood Cemetery, Amherst:
Austin’s burial in, 164, 166, 168, 261, 357
Dickinson family’s contributions to, 47, 159
Millicent’s contribution to, 338
Todd family burials in, 201, 261, 267, 357
Wineapple, Brenda, 127
Winslow, Helen, 85
Wittenberg, Philip, 320
women:
conventional roles of, 352, 353, 354, 355–56
education of, 19, 103
leadership roles of, 86, 354
moral virtue of, 358
and motherhood, 355
travels of, 354
in Victorian era, 35, 67, 355
Woolley, Mary, 243
World typewriter, 124, 125, 413
World War I “Great War,” 210–13, 397
World War II, 270, 272–73, 286
Yale University:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 327, 328
Bingham/Todd papers in, 328–29, 337
Peabody Museum, 326
Sterling Library, xxi, 327
YMCA, 210–11, 216, 217
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