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Poet Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

At 31, Emily Dickinson sent a letter to the writer Thomas Wentworth Higginson asking what he thought of her poetry. More than two decades of flirtatious correspondence followed. This double biography reveals a captivating Dickinson — part seductress, part little girl, all genius.

Grade: B+

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