amherst (mass.)

In Amherst, Massachusetts, in spring, 1834, young Emily Dickinson uses scraps of paper and a pencil nub to write a poem, before she even knows her ABCs, and shares it with her household and garden. Includes author's note about Dickinson's life and work.

The author chronicles his life from age twelve to sixteen, living in the bizarre home of his mother's psychiatrist, where he was sexually abused by the doctor's thirty-three-year-old adopted son.

The only sibling left in the Dickinson house in Amherst, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1849, Emily gets a dog who becomes her constant companion and who is featured in some of the poems she writes. Includes brief notes on the life and work of Emily Dickinson.

When Emily Dickinson meets a young man who refuses to tell her his name she is intrigued, so when he is found dead in her family's pond in Amherst she is determined to discover his secret, no matter how dangerous it may prove to be.

When fifteen-year-old Emily Dickinson meets a charming, enigmatic young man who playfully refuses to tell her his name, she is intrigued--so when he is found dead in her family's pond in Amherst she is determined to discover his secret, no matter how dangerous it may prove to be.

Emily Beam's boyfriend takes his own life after they break up due to Emily's pregnancy, and her parents' pressure to get an abortion. Wounded deeply, Emily transfers to Amherst boarding school, where the spirit of Emily Dickinson helps her find healing and expression in poetry.

A new girl in Amherst, Massachusetts, comes to terms with her mother's suicide and her best friend's disappearance with the help of Emily Dickinson's poetry--and her dress.

Sent to an Amherst, Massachusetts, boarding school after her ex-boyfriend shoots himself, seventeen-year-old Emily expresses herself through poetry as she relives their relationship, copes with her guilt, and begins to heal.

Presents a biography of nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson, discussing her childhood in New England, her education, religion, and friendships, her family, and her writing, and examining some of the myths that have arisen regarding her life.