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"Mercy Philbrick's Choice" by Helen Hunt Jackson is a tale that takes inspiration from a school friend of Jackson's, the famed Emily Dickinson. When a New England man who is passionate about beauty and his argumentative mother have a mortgage on a house to pay, they live in one half in the hopes of renting the other. An 18-year-old widow who is honest to a fault and her childlike old mother come from the seaside to rent it.
This work places Emily Dickinson's poetry in a new setting, examining the many ways in which Dickinson's literary style was affected by her experiences with tuberculosis and her growing fear of contracting the disease. The author gives an in-depth discussion on 73 of Dickinson's poems, providing readers with a fresh perspective on issues that have long plagued Dickinson biographers, including her notoriously shut-in lifestyle, her complicated relationship with the tuberculosis-stricken Benjamin Franklin Newton, and the possible real-life inspirations for her "terror since September."