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“And Do Not Forget Emily”: Con{f}idante Abby Wood on Dickinson's Lonely Religious Rebellion

Polly Longsworth
Publisher: Journals Gateway
The New England Quarterly (2009) 82 (2): 335–346.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq.2009.82.2.335
Published: 01 June 2009
Abstract
Confidante Abby Wood describes Emily Dickinson's tortured mind during the Great Revival of 1850. “She treated me as if she were insane,” Abby writes after a call. “The spirit of God is striving in her bosom and she is perfectly wretched.” While Wood is converted, Dickinson “grieves away” her opportunity.
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