by Barbara Dana
Further Reading
Dickinson, Emily, selected and with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates. The Essential Dickinson. Hopewell, N.J.: Ecco Press, 1996.
______. Essential Dickinson. A CD recording read by Julie Harris. New York: Caedmon Audio, 2006. Available online at LearnOutLoud.com.
Eberwein, Jane Donahue, ed. An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1998.
Franklin, R. W., ed. The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999.
Habegger, Alfred. My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson. New York: Random House, 2001.
Johnson, Thomas H., ed. The Letters of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986.
______. Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986.
Kirk, Connie Ann. Emily Dickinson: A Biography. Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 2004.
Longsworth, Polly. The World of Emily Dickinson. New York and London: Norton, 1990.
______. Austin and Mabel: The Amherst Affair & Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1984.
Luce, William. The Belle of Amherst. New York, Hollywood, London, Toronto: Samuel French, 1976.
MacKenzie, Cynthia. Concordance to the Letters of Emily Dickinson. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2000.
Sewall, Richard B. The Life of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994.
About the Author
Author, playwright, and actor Barbara Dana spent over a decade researching Emily Dickinson for this book. Her award-winning books for children include ZUCCHINI and YOUNG JOAN, a novel based on the girlhood of Joan of Arc. She is also the coeditor of WIDER THAN THE SKY: Essays and Meditations on the Healing Power of Emily Dickinson for adults.
Ms. Dana has three grown sons. She lives in South Salem, New York, with her yellow Lab, Riley. You can visit Barbara Dana on her website at www.barbaradana.com.
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A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson
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Dana, Barbara
A voice of her own : becoming Emily Dickinson : a novel / by Barbara Dana. —1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: A fictionalized first-person account of revered American poet Emily Dickinson’s girlhood in mid-nineteenth-century Amherst, Massachusetts.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ).
ISBN 978-0-06-028704-7 (trade bdg.)
1. Dickinson, Emily, 1830–1886—Childhood and youth—Juvenile fiction. [1. Dickinson, Emily, 1830–1886—Childhood and youth—Fiction. 2. Amherst (Mass.)—History—19th century—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D188Vo 2009
[Fic]—dc22
2008010289
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