Lives like loaded guns : Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds / Lyndall Gordon.
Gordon, Lyndall.
2010
PS1541.Z5 G66 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Lives like loaded guns : Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds / Lyndall Gordon.
Author Gordon, Lyndall.
Edition 1st American ed.
ISBN 9780670021932
0670021938
Imprint New York, NY : Viking, 2010.
Language English
Description xvii, 491 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., geneal. table, map, ports. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PS1541.Z5 G66 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 811/.4
Summary In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother, Austin, began an adulterous love affair with the accomplished and ravishing Mabel Todd, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. Award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon tells the story of the feud that erupted-and that still continues today. Making unprecedented use of letters, diaries, and legal documents, Gordon proposes a groundbreaking new solution to the secret behind the poet's insistent seclusion, presenting a woman beyond her time who found love, spirituality, and immortality all on her own terms. The first major biography of Dickinson in nearly ten years, Lives Like Loaded Guns is a highly acclaimed story of creative genius, illicit passion, and betrayal that will forever change the way we view one of America's most important literary figures.
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pt. 1. Poet next door
pt. 2. '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
pt. 3. Mabel's reign
Emily's stand
Lady Macbeth of Amherst
Mabel in Excelsis
pt. 4. The war between the houses
Lavinia's stand
The trial
Defeats of the first generation
Two daughters
The battle of the daughters
Posthumous campaigns
pt. 5. Outliving the legend.

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