Emily Dickinson

by Milton Meltzer

Book Overview

Emily Dickinson appeared to be an ordinary woman of her time. In somewhat frail health, she lived and died quietly in the town of Amherst, Massachusetts, in the mid-1800s. She never married, and few people knew that she wrote poetry. Only a handful of her poems were published during her lifetime-- and not by her own doing. After Emily died, her sister found more than 1,700 poems written on scraps of paper, all wrapped up in little packets in Emily's...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761329498
• ISBN13: 9780761329497
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12