Part one, 1636-1830: Amherst and the fathers
Emily Norcross of Monson
1826-1828: winning Emily Norcross
1828-1830: shifting foundations
Part two, 1830-1840: 1830-1835: a warm and anxious nest
1836-1840: the fire-stealer's girlhood
Part three, 1840-1847: First years on West Street
Amherst Academy
Death and friendship
Part four, 1847-1852: 1847-1848: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
1848-1850: first drunkenness
1850-1852: somebody's rev-e-ries
Part five, 1852-1858: 1852-1854: a sheltered life
1853-1855: news of the ancient school of true poets
1855-1858: troubles and riddles
Part six, 1858-1865: 1858-1860: nothing's small
1860-1862: carrying and singing the heart's heavy freight
1862-1865: the fighting years
Part seven, 1866-1886: 1866-1870: repose
1870-1878: wisdom that won't go stale
1878-1884: late adventures in friendship and love
1880-1886: exquisite containment
Family charts
Appendices: A second photography of Emily Dickinson?
Standing buildings associated with Emily Dickinson
Deaths from consumption (tuberculosis)
Emily Dickinson's legal signatures
Summary of corrected dates of letters.