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Emily Dickinson - Continuing Enigma
How did Emily Dickinson's poetry come to public attention? By your About.com Women's History Guide.

Guide Picks - Emily Dickinson Biographies and Criticism
Your Guide to Women's History recommends books about Emily Dickinson, including biographies and interpretive essays.

Brief Biography of Emily Dickinson
Hyperlinked biography of Dickinson. The basics are here.

Academy of American Poets
Short bio with links to nine poems, some comments on her work. Short bibliography of essentials.

Dickinson's Arctic
Dickinson's use of Arctic and ice imagery prompted this author to add this web page to provide some context.

Emily Dickinson
This biographical sketch of Emily Dickinson includes some discussion of the letters she sent to her friend and later sister-in-law Susan and whether these are evidence for Dickinson's lesbianism.

Later Poets: New England: Emily Dickinson
From the 1907 Cambridge History of English and American Literature, an assessment of Dickinson's work. Interesting historical view.

Mabel Loomis Todd on Dickinson's Poetry
From the preface to her Series 3 of Dickinson's poems, Todd's commentary on her "peculiar genius."

Neurotic Poets: Emily Dickinson
This biography examines her life and her reclusive behavior and suggests possible agoraphobia or anxiety disorder.

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Martha Hale Shackford
A January 1913 Atlantic Monthly article on Dickinson's poetry.

Poetry, Word Play, and Intellectual Pleasure
An essay on using Dickinson's manuscripts in undergraduate education. By Annette Debo and Catherine Dauterman at the University of Maryland.

Rationale of Hypertext
Deep within this essay is a discussion on how hypertext may be a truer reproduction of Dickinson's work than printed material can be.

Remember Emily Dickinson
A short biography from the Lambda Society, emphasizing how Dickinson's poems expressing love for women were suppressed for years after her death. There is still no consensus on whether (or not) these indicate that she was a lesbian.

Virtual Emily
Designed to accompany a visitor on a tour of the Dickinson homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts, these illustrated essays are excellent biographical resources.

Women of the Hall: Emily Dickinson
The Women's Hall of Fame honors Emily Dickinson with this short biography.