Cynthia Griffin Wolff (1936–2024)

Author of Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson (1986) 163 copies, 2 reviews

A feast of words : the triumph of Edith Wharton (1977) 74 copies

Classic American women writers: Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather (1980) — Editor — 26 copies

Samuel Richardson and the eighteenth-century Puritan character (1972) 5 copies

Other lives (1973) 1 copy

Emily Dickinson 1st edition by Wolff, Cynthia Griffin (1986) Hardcover 1 copy

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The Age of Innocence (1920) — Introduction, some editions — 15,919 copies, 334 reviews

Summer (1917) — Introduction, some editions — 2,417 copies, 79 reviews

Roman Fever and Other Stories (1964) — Introduction, some editions — 645 copies, 20 reviews

The Awakening [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (2003) — Contributor — 283 copies

Ethan Frome [Norton Critical Editions] (1911) — Editor, some editions — 136 copies, 3 reviews

Coming, Aphrodite! and Other Stories (1999) — Introduction, some editions — 42 copies

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Birthdate: 1936
Date of death: 2024-07-25
Gender: female
Education: Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
Radcliffe College (BA)
Harvard Medical School
Harvard University (PhD)
Occupations: scholar of English and American literature
professor
biographer
Organizations: Modern Language Association
American Studies Association
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards and honors: Guggenheim Fellowship (1997)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Places of residence: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Canton, Massachusetts, USA
Map Location: USA

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Emily Dickinson (Radcliffe Biography Series) by Cynthia Griffin Wolff

This was an excellent and very detailed biography of Emily Dickinson. The connection between the events of her life and her major poems provided great insights to understanding her poetry. It took me forever to read this mainly because of the extreme detail provided. Sometimes the commentary of the author was a little too much. That said, I finally forced myself to finish this book and was glad I did. It actually went much better about midway through the book when the focus was more on show more interpretation of Dickinson's poetry. That was, after all, why I read this book in the first place. show less

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Emily Dickinson by Cynthia Griffin Wolff