EMILY DICKINSON IN LOVE: The Case for Otis Lord

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195 j Index j Anthony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), clue in, 24–25, 163 Atlantic Monthly, ED letters in, 11, 12, 159 Bentley, Richard (English scholar), 3 Bianchi, Martha Dickinson (ED niece): first memory of ED, 82; on Otis Lord as “Master,” 162; retouches ED daguerreotype, 157; saw no skin blemish in ED’s last illness, 115, 117 Bingham, Millicent (daughter of Mabel Todd): awareness of Judge Lord as ED‘s “Master,” 126; death of, 126; unsuccessful search for Lord papers, 122 blackmail of Dickinson family. See Fuller, Gardner Bradlee, Margaret, donates last ED white dress to Amherst Historical Society, 150 Dickinson, Austin (ED brother): adulterous affair of, 182, 190; diary of on ED’s last hours, 110–11, 189; escorts ED to Boston for eye treatment, 70; mutilates ED letters bought from blackmailer, 17–18; negotiates with blackmailer for ED letters, 9–17 Dickinson, Emily: Bible and, 22, 38, 40–41, 49 Bright’s disease, ED diagnosed with. 19, 106; not true cause of death, 112–18 burial of, imitates that of Heathcliff, 113, 189–90 called “little hussy . . . crazy about men,” 121 Civil War and, 80–81 daguerreotype of, retouched, 157 death of, 19, 110–11, 112–18 “echo” poet, ED as, 23, 173, 176, 179–80 eye trouble, 69–72; Boston residence for treatment of, 73; in part as pretext for meetings with Otis Lord, 73–80; possible diagnoses of, 71, 175 father, death of, 95 famous suicides, ED interest in, 114–15 j Since the Notes and Sources section is linked directly to the main text page by page and item by item, only its more significant entries are listed here. Dickinson, Emily (continued): final illness, onset of, 110 medicines, used by ED for suicide, 115, 116 mother’s illness and death, 102, 104, 186–87 physical description of, 1, 83 poems of, punctuation, 126, 155–56 recluse, not happy as, 53, 108–9, 184–85 suicide of, see Dickinson, Emily: death of Dickinson, Emily, and Otis Lord: clandestine meetings in Boston (1864, 1865), 71, 73, 80 “Daisy,” ED nickname, 78 (see also under “Master”) ED Boston residence not necessary for eye treatment, 71–73, 75–81 ED eye trouble , see under Dickinson, Emily ED letters to family from Boston, 73, 177 ED letters to OL mutilated, 17–18, 162 ED letters to OL quoted, 14, 16, 21–22, 23, 24, 78–79, 102–3, 104–5 ED letters to OL used for blackmail, 17 first ED meeting as adult with OL, 57–58 first ED meeting with widower OL, 99–100 horsecars (Cambridge), used by ED for meetings, 71, 72 , 77 marriage delayed, 103–4, 105–6 meetings in Amherst (1858–1883), 45, 68–69, 90–91, 102, 188 meetings in Boston (1864, 1865), 73–80 OL alters court sitting to be with ED in Boston, 71, 175–76 OL as ED’s “Master,” 28–54 passim (see also “Master”) OL death, 106, 108 OL description and background, 20, 39, 41–42, 90–92 OL favors theory of evolution, 9 OL first proposed as “Master,” 2, 9 OL inquires about ED health, 96 owl card and poem linked to OL/“Master” 47, 49, 169 poems of ED openly linked to Lord and/or “Master,” 25, 35, 46, 48, 49, 51–52, 54, 74–75, 76, 79, 100 punning by ED on Lord name, 22, 25, 31, 39, 40, 44, 46–47, 49, 51–52, 99, 103 ring and bracelet, OL gift to ED, 19, 100–101, 186 Salem ship legend linked to OL, 40, 41, 167 “separate-heart” poems o f ED, pattern in, 43–54, 168–69 sexual references in ED letters, 21–22, 75, 80, 86, 98, 162, 170, 179 Shakespeare, OL inspires ED interest in, 75–76, 177; Anthony and Cleopatra, 24–25, 173; 1 Henry VI, 76; 2 Henry IV, 79; Othello, 22–23, 164; Romeo and Juliet, 114 Index 196 Index 197 Dickinson, Lavinia (Vinnie) (ED sister), 13, 17–18, 19, 27, 59, 60, 159, 191; on blackmailer Gardner Fuller, 1 2, 159; puts flowers for Judge Lord in ED coffin, 19, 111, 162; special funeral for ED arranged by, 114, 117, 192 Dickinson, Susan (Sue) (ED sister-in-law), 59, 91, 111; R. W. Emerson her houseguest, 63–64 documentary sources, latent content of, 4, 158 Emerson, R. W. lectures in Amherst (1857), 63; ED not present at, 64–67 Emmons, Henry (student) ED’s first love, 2...