Heh. I think I was a little more sympathetic to Habegger and his lack of evidence than you. . . I mean, I thought he made some pretty interesting leaps of interpretation from the poems -- I felt skeptical a lot, but it was an admirable attempt, I thought. Half a novel, almost.

But it was the first Dickinson biography I'd ever read, so I think I took it pretty much at face value (except that he's constantly picking fights with previous biographers, in the grand tradition of biography).

Winona's Pony Cart sounds adorable. I don't think I read any of MH Lovelace's books that didn't have "Betsy" in the title -- I'm not sure I knew they existed.