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The Gift

The Gift

Peter Dickinson

This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Peter Dickinson including rare images from the author’s collection.
Eva

Eva

Peter Dickinson

This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Peter Dickinson including rare images from the author’s collection.
Chuck and Danielle

Chuck and Danielle

Peter Dickinson

. . Seven funny, charming and totally whippet-friendly stories from Peter Dickinson, the winner of several major awards for his books for young readers - and the owner of three whippets!
The Changes Trilogy: The Devil's Children, Heartsease, and ...

The Changes Trilogy: The Devil's Children, Heartsease, and ...

Peter Dickinson

Prolific author Peter Dickinson was known for “keeping up a page-turning pace,” and these adventure-packed novels are some of his most important contributions to science fiction (The Guardian).
Some Deaths Before Dying

Some Deaths Before Dying

Peter Dickinson

The New York Times Book Review calls multiple-award winner Peter Dickinson "a stylist of subtle brilliance".
Emily Dickinson face to face: unpublished letters, with ...

Emily Dickinson face to face: unpublished letters, with ...

Martha Dickinson Bianchi

I am indebted to members of various branches of the Dickinson family, especially to Virginia Dickinson Reynolds, and to Theodore Stebbins for his researches. Caen, great-grandson of Walter, accompanied his kinsman, William the Conqueror ...
The Poems of Emily Dickinson

The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

... the trend since mid-twentieth century has been to accept Dickinson's substantives as they are, preserving manner as well as sound and sense. This edition continues this trend, not changing, for example, as Martha Dickinson Bianchi did in ...
Screening Gender, Framing Genre: Canadian Literature Into Film

Screening Gender, Framing Genre: Canadian Literature Into Film

Peter Dickinson

Dickinson is not only critically and academically thorough but he demonstrates through such meticulousness a celebration of Canadian film itself. This book is a major contribution that definitely advances the field.
Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination

Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination

Linda Freedman

4 For further discussion of Dickinson's personae, see John Emerson Todd, Emily Dickinson's Use ofthe Persona (The Hague: Mouton, 1973). For further discussion of Dickinson's letters, see Marietta Messmer, A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily ...
University Club of Chicago

University Club of Chicago

University Club (Chicago, Ill.).

Dewey, George Goodwin De Young, Herbert Cornell Dick, George Frederick Dick , Robert Frank Dicken, Clinton Orr Dickinson, Francis R. . Dickinson, Kenneth Scott . Dickinson, Phil Sawyer Dickinson, Robert B. . Dickinson, William Reynolds  ...
Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare

Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare

Páraic Finnerty

Daneen Wardrop, '"The Ethiop Within: Emily Dickinson and Slavery," in Emily Dickinson at Home, Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Emily Dickinson International Society in South Hadley, Mount Holyoke College, 12-15 ...
The Emily Dickinson Handbook

The Emily Dickinson Handbook

Gudrun Grabher

The critic who has pushed the interpretation of Dickinson's poetry as homoerotic most relentlessly recently is Paula Bennett in My Life a Loaded Gun: Female Creativity and Feminist Poetics (1986) and Emily Dickinson: Woman Poet (1990).
Religion Around Emily Dickinson

Religion Around Emily Dickinson

W. Clark Gilpin

Religion Around Emily Dickinson begins with a seeming paradox posed by Dickinson’s posthumously published works: while her poems and letters contain many explicitly religious themes and concepts, throughout her life she resisted joining ...
The International Reception of Emily Dickinson

The International Reception of Emily Dickinson

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... a concise, comprehensive summation of the key features not only of Johnson's Complete Poems (1976) but also of Richard Sewall's The Life of Emily Dickinson (1974) and John Emerson Todd's Emily Dickinson's Use of the Persona (1973).
Dickinson Studies

Dickinson Studies

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Musicians Wrestle Everywhere Emily Dickinson & Music by Carlton Lowenberg With a Foreword by Richard B. SewaB Emily Dickinson's astonishingly original poems have inspired numerous composers around the world to set them to music .
Emily Dickinson's gothic: goblin with a gauge

Emily Dickinson's gothic: goblin with a gauge

Daneen Wardrop

Emily Dickinson's Gothic, the first full length study of Dickinson as a primarily gothic writer, is based upon a recognition of women's gothicism.
Kalki

Kalki

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8 Virginia Dickinson Reynolds (Mrs. J. Stuart), sister of Florence Dickinson Stearns, the poet; both were proud of their kinship to Emily Dickinson. a Emma Gray White (Mrs. William H.), mother of Emma Gray Trigg. 10 Mr. and Mrs. Pleasanton L.
Nimble Believing: Dickinson and the Unknown

Nimble Believing: Dickinson and the Unknown

James McIntosh

A groundbreaking exploration of the themes of faith and doubt in Emily Dickinson's poetry
My Wars are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

My Wars are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

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Two "corroborating" letters quoted by MDB are Virginia Fendley Dickinson to Virginia Dickinson Reynolds, postmarked ll-?-1930, and Reynolds to MDB, 10-7- 1930, bMS Am 1 118.97, 3:100, 3:99, H. For the noxious effects of MDB s account of ...
Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series

Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series

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Graceful at any angle. Sea gulls no. 10. By Vernie Kay Dickinson. Photo. Add. tl.: Save the beaches. 0 Vernie Kay Dickinson; 3Dec73 ; JU13526. '*' JU13H27. Every feather under control. Sea gull:- no. I. By Vernie Kay Dickinson. Photo. Add. ti.
Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing

Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing

Daneen Wardrop

A history of nineteenth-century fashion through the works of Emily Dickinson
The Life of Emily Dickinson

The Life of Emily Dickinson

Richard Benson Sewall

A massively detailed, illustrated biography of Emily Dickinson.
Emily Dickinson and Philosophy

Emily Dickinson and Philosophy

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This collection situates Dickinson within the rapidly evolving intellectual culture of her time and explores the degree to which her groundbreaking poetry anticipated trends in twentieth-century thought.
Unpublished poems of Emily Dickinson

Unpublished poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

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The weathermonger

The weathermonger

Peter Dickinson

People of the future recreate the Middle Ages by destroying Machines and by subjecting anyone found with a machine or a knowledge of mechanics to severe punishment or death.
liberty and property

liberty and property

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H. T. Dickinson, 'The Eighteenth-Century Debate on the Sovereignty of Parliament', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser, xxvi (1976), 189 –210; and H. T. Dickinson, “The Rights of Man: From John Locke to Tom Paine', ...
Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson's Poetic Development

Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson's Poetic Development

Aliki Barnstone

A new appreciation of the development of Emily Dickinson's poetics.
Tears of the Salamander

Tears of the Salamander

Peter Dickinson

Alfredo is his heir, the next Master; and as Alfredo learns the history of his family and its power, he begins to suspect that his uncle is actually a fearsome sorcerer. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Elementals: Water

Elementals: Water

Peter Dickinson

. . Immerse yourself in this mesmorising collection of short stories inspired buy the element of Water - and be swept away by the supurb storytelling skills of two major award-winning authors.

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