Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
Author’s Foreword
Prologue
Part I
Stoneless Place
A Wooden Way
Vinnie Snores Loudly
Frying Doughnuts
Otis
My Tenth Birthday
Girl Friends
Early Poems and Damnation
Abby’s Fish
Sophia
Have You Ever Seen a Naked Boy?
Stain of Death and My First Bible
Lone Suppers
The Me of Me
No Other Bread
A Fate Worse Than Death
Part II
Mount Holyoke Seminary
The Dungeon Fear and the Condition of My Shoes
Silent Friend
A Place to Stand
Awful Shock
Whiskers
Part III
Ben
Frozen at the Bone
Carlo
Fingels Cave and the Knowledge of My Destiny
Abby Slips Away
I Beat the Plate to Death
Vesuvius Unchained
Sue
Stolen Time
Do Girls Marry for Love?
Father and the Aurora Borealis
Father Puts Out the Fire
Professor Tyler’s Woods
Lonely upon the Shore
My Philadelphia
Home
Author’s Notes
Phrases
Basic Facts about Emily Dickinson
Further Reading
About the Author
Other Books by Barbara Dana
Copyright
About the Publisher