A review by abe389
My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson by Alfred Habegger

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Recommended to me at the emily dickinson museum as the best overall biography of her - excellent mostly as described, but weirdly presumptive at times even as it is hostile to other biographer’s presumptions; and also I think way too rigid when it comes to gender. VERY narrowly about her life - ends the moment she dies, I wish there had been more tackling of the history of her legacy & the telling of her, without which the book kind of feels incomplete. Still great overall!