Lives Like Loaded Guns : : Emily Dickinson and her Family's Feuds
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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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PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: xvii, 491 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780670021932
0670021938
SUBJECTS
Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1886 -- Family.
Poets, American -- 19th century -- Family relationships.
Amherst (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.