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Reading the Fascicles of Emily Dickinson: Dwelling in Possibilities

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From: Legacy
Date: 20041231
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By Eleanor Elson Heginbotham. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2003. 185 pp. $47.95.

Between 1858 and 1864, Emily Dickinson gathered almost nine hundred of her holograph poems into forty hand-stitched booklets known as the fascicles, each averaging between sixteen and twenty-four pages in length. In Reading the Fascicles of Emily Dickinson, Eleanor Heginbotham approaches these manuscript books with the assumption that Dickinson was the editor of her own work and that the deliberate groupings of poems can suggest new ways of reading and interpreting them. Acknowledging her interest ...

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