Gordon, Lyndall. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-470) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780670021932 0670021938 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009046311 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 --Family.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poets, American--Family relationships.--19th century
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Amherst (Mass.)--Intellectual life--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS1541.Z5  / G66 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>811/.4