Emily Dickinson

Emily is a dreamer, a writer, and a poet. Determined to be true to herself. If she can only figure out what that means. Does it require hurling herself into the arms of God? Or daring to submit a valentine into dreaded “publication?” Does it mandate that she plunge herself into marriage like her girl......more

Reviewed by Cat for TeensReadToo.com Despite a huge body of work and lifetime's worth of correspondence she left behind, Emily Dickinson remains an enigma in many people's minds. Why was she so preoccupied with death? Why did she choose to not marry in an era when most women did so to the exclusion o......more

A perfect example of why I would rather read a biography than historical fiction about real people, most of the time.......more

Some passages I liked: P. 75 on writing poetry I was sick most of the summer. However, once strong enough to lift my head from the pillow, I wrote a poem. It had been on my mind those half-awake days I heard a dog bark, demanding of something he felt the right to have. I could hear it in the bark. He-......more

The book "A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson" by author Barbara Dana tells about the childhood and early life of the famous poet Emily Dickinson. It describes her struggle to become a poet and the restrictions which everyone in her life, especially her father, put on her. In the story, she......more