amherst (mass.)

Examines the life of Emily Dickinson, discussing possible reasons for her isolation, such as an epileptic condition, and a personal and professional feud with the Todd family that began when her married brother, Ned, began an affair with Mabel Todd and persisted after Emily's death.

A fictionalized first-person account of revered American poet Emily Dickinson's girlhood in mid-nineteenth-century Amherst, Massachusetts.

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.

In 1881 Amherst, Massachusetts, six-year-old Gilbert finds it both challenging and wonderful to spend time with his aunt, the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, who lives next door.