Emily D. and You and Me

“Emily Dickinson is a most subtle poet who wrote in deceptively simple forms. She has found an ideal reader in Ellen Harrington, who is herself a subtle explorer of art and spirit with a gift for simple and powerful expression of the insights and pleasures she has gleaned from her time with Emily.”

—Lawrence Sutin, author of Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance



“ Emily D. and You and Me is at once a painful, insightful, and hopeful book. . . . Ellen’s beautifully written self-revelation of her pain and her healing journey will encourage many readers to know that they don’t have to be permanent prisoners of childhood violations. A meaningful and whole life is possible. Well done, Ellen . . . brilliantly conceived and executed.”

—Michael Lapsley, Director, Institute for Healing of Memories, South Africa



“Harrington has created visions of two lives—her own and Emily Dickinson’s—and has found a structure that allows these two voices to reach into any reader’s psyche. . . . Harrington claims Dickinson as spirit guide and companion and moves effortlessly between her own moments of growth and the getting of wisdom, and her deep knowledge . . . as she recreates Dickinson’s life and times and soul work. I’m very glad this book is in the world.”

—Deborah Keenan, author of Willow Room, Green Door