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heidihaverkamp's review against another edition
4.0
Clean, simple account of the life of the great Emily Dickinson. Written for young adults, but I found it very engaging and interesting. Sometimes she makes a few more jumps than I feel are legit in assuming what we can know about EED (i.e., let's think of all the reasons why she wore only white in her middle age), and she also has the usual academic bias against organized religion (why would anyone we respect believe all that stuff?). While it's indisputable that EED avoided attending church (as Kirk points out, who wouldn't in the midst of all that revivalism and peer pressure of the mid 19th century? yikes!) but she also was, obviously, influenced by the KJ Bible, listed the Book of Revelation as one of her favorite books read *The Imitation of Christ*, and otherwise was influenced artistically by Christianity. Not sure, however, that we can surmise that she would have been "relieved" to read science books at college because they would've made so much more sense to her than religion. OK, getting off hobby horse now.
A great biography, not too long, but still with meat in it.
A great biography, not too long, but still with meat in it.
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