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Gordon, Lyndall.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Family.
Poets, American -- 19th century -- Family relationships.
Amherst (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Lives like loaded gu...
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Lives like loaded guns : Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds / Lyndall Gordon.
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Gordon, Lyndall.
New York : Viking, 2010.
Subjects
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Family.
Poets, American -- 19th century -- Family relationships.
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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