About Emily Dickinson - Biographies
Resources to help understand the life of Emily Dickinson: biographies, essays on aspects of her life history, and other treatments of her life. Excellent material for research papers here.
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."
Women of the Hall: Emily Dickinson
The Women's Hall of Fame honors Emily Dickinson with this short biography.