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Norma and her male counterpart, "Normman," were modeled by Gynecologist Robert Latou Dickinson and Sculptor Abram Belskie. "That American look," observes Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, the Museum's curator of physical anthropology, has changed considerably since the 1890s. The modern girl is taller (5 ft. 3½ in.), longer in the leg, thicker in the waist (26.4 in.), and has slightly heavier hips (37.4 in.) and legs than the 1890 girl. But, thanks to a bigger bust (33.9 in.) and torso, her figure looks better proportioned, at least to the anthropologists...
BOLTS OF MELODY-Emily Dickinson-edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Millicent Todd Bingham - Harper...
...Emily Dickinson died almost 60 years ago, but last week more than 650 of her poems were published for the first time. They are wonderful: some of them are as good as her best. On an old scrap of paper (not large enough, so she had to write around the edges), in her curious hand writing, half-print and half-script, she noted...
...England Family. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Mass., in the days when Amherst, with 260 students, was a bigger college than Harvard. Her father was Edward Dickinson, a leading lawyer and the college treasurer. He was a narrow-eyed, frozen-faced, unbending New Englander, who ran the town, the college, and his family with unconscious mastery. It was not that he was obviously domineering: it just never occurred to people to oppose him. When a photographer, alarmed at his stern expression, timidly asked him to smile, the squire thundered: "I am smiling...
Most of the books about Emily Dickinson are stories of their battles. Ancestors' Brocades, the most recent and one of the best, is a 464-page record of the exact circumstances of the first book publication of Emily's poems, after her death. It is a valuable book, rich in detail, illustrated with 16 fine photographs and sketches. Its careful report of intellectual brutality, spite, frauds, lawsuits, jealousies, of poems and letters destroyed, attempted blackmail fabrications and hoarded literary wealth, would be almost unbearable if it were not for the glimpses of Emily one gets beyond the foreground...