In a brilliant new book, “Natural Magic,” Renée Bergland brings Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin ... elegantly told story about science and religion and art — and at least one other ...

By comparison, Emily Dickinson’s known epistolary ... Both were uncomfortable with traditional religion—Dickinson referred to God as an unknowable “Eclipse,” and Darwin found it hard ...

But Dickinson remained shrouded by obscurity ... Despite the institution’s religious slant, Emily at the time remained defiantly questioning. A fellow student recalled an occasion when their ...