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theanitaalvarez's review
5.0
Emily Dickinson is one of those mysterious figures in Literature. I've always been very curious about her. Her life is just so incredible, so different. She locked herself in her house little by little, and wrote amazing poetry that was only published after her death.
I liked these letters because I could get a glimpse of that woman who left her mark upon Literature and yet, nobody know much about her. I loved reading about her relationship with her siblings, with her sister-in-law, with some supposed love interests and so on. I'm always very curious about the lives of the authors I like, especially those like Emily Dickinson or J.D. Salinger, who actively rejected public life. It's just so incredible.
I like to know that an author is somehow a real person. I got that feeling from this book. Emily Dickinson was a genius (and there's no way to deny it), but she was also a woman with friends and family, who might have fallen in love more than once. She lived, despite her reclusion and her secrets. And I really loved getting to know her a little bit more.
I liked these letters because I could get a glimpse of that woman who left her mark upon Literature and yet, nobody know much about her. I loved reading about her relationship with her siblings, with her sister-in-law, with some supposed love interests and so on. I'm always very curious about the lives of the authors I like, especially those like Emily Dickinson or J.D. Salinger, who actively rejected public life. It's just so incredible.
I like to know that an author is somehow a real person. I got that feeling from this book. Emily Dickinson was a genius (and there's no way to deny it), but she was also a woman with friends and family, who might have fallen in love more than once. She lived, despite her reclusion and her secrets. And I really loved getting to know her a little bit more.
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