Lives like loaded guns : Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds /
Gordon, Lyndall.
Lives like loaded guns : Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds / Lyndall Gordon. - 1st American ed. - New York : Viking, 2010. - xvii, 491 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., geneal. table, map, ports. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-470) and indexes.
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.
9780670021932 0670021938
2009046311
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 --Family.
Poets, American--Family relationships.--19th century
Amherst (Mass.)--Intellectual life--19th century.
PS1541.Z5 / G66 2010
811/.4
Lives like loaded guns : Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds / Lyndall Gordon. - 1st American ed. - New York : Viking, 2010. - xvii, 491 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., geneal. table, map, ports. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-470) and indexes.
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.
9780670021932 0670021938
2009046311
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 --Family.
Poets, American--Family relationships.--19th century
Amherst (Mass.)--Intellectual life--19th century.
PS1541.Z5 / G66 2010
811/.4