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Title:
Lives like loaded guns : Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds
ISBN:
9780670021932
Edition:
1st American ed.
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2010.
Physical Description:
xvii, 491 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., geneal. table, map, ports. ; 24 cm.
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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