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BELLES LETTRES OF AMHERST A scholar invents an epistolary novel starring Emily Dickinson, young poetic hothead

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19960901
Author:Gail Caldwell, Globe Staff

I NEVER CAME TO YOU IN WHITE By Judith Farr. Houghton Mifflin: Peter Davison. 223 pp. $21.95. Gail Caldwell is chief book critic of the Globe.

A slight, ebullient woman, she tended her beloved garden at dusk and left her father's house only rarely after the age of 29. She fiddled with geometry in her head, loved Milton for his flowers rather than his piety, and revered the Bible as much for its literary merit as its holiness. The intelligence was fierce, the sensibility filled with light, and yet for all her genius and innocence, Emily Dickinson could not protect herself from pain, which on ...

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