Lives like loaded guns : Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds / Lyndall Gordon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Viking, 2010.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xvii, 491 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., geneal. table, map, ports. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780670021932 :
  • 0670021938
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 811/.4 22
LOC classification:
  • PS1541.Z5 G66 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
A poet next door -- 'A still--volcano--life.' The first family -- A scientific education -- Sister -- 'Wife without the sign' -- 'Snarl in the brain' -- Telling -- Romancing Judge Lord -- Split in the family -- Mabel's reign. Emily's stand -- Lady Macbeth of Amherst -- Mabel in Excelsis -- The war between the houses. Lavinia's stand -- The trial -- Defeats of the first generation -- Two daughters -- The battle of the daughters -- Posthumous campaigns -- Outliving the legend.
Summary: Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons, and reveals Emily as a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagination.
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Book Book Stonewall Biography B Dickinson GOR 2010 1 Available 01431191421

Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-470) and indexes.

A poet next door -- 'A still--volcano--life.' The first family -- A scientific education -- Sister -- 'Wife without the sign' -- 'Snarl in the brain' -- Telling -- Romancing Judge Lord -- Split in the family -- Mabel's reign. Emily's stand -- Lady Macbeth of Amherst -- Mabel in Excelsis -- The war between the houses. Lavinia's stand -- The trial -- Defeats of the first generation -- Two daughters -- The battle of the daughters -- Posthumous campaigns -- Outliving the legend.

Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons, and reveals Emily as a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagination.

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