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  • Gordon, Lyndall.
     
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  • Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Family.
     
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  • Amherst (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
     
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    Lives like loaded guns : Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds / Lyndall Gordon.
    by Gordon, Lyndall.
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    New York : Viking, 2010.
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  • Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Family.
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  • Poets, American -- 19th century -- Family relationships.
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  • Amherst (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
  • ISBN: 
    9780670021932
    0670021938
    Description: 
    xvii, 491 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., geneal. table, map, ports. ; 24 cm.
    Edition: 
    1st American ed.
    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.
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    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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