TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gordon,Lyndall
TI  - Lives like loaded guns: Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds 
SN  - 9780670021932
AV  - PS1541.Z5 G66 2010
U1  - 811/.4 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Viking
KW  - Dickinson, Emily,
KW  - Poets, American
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Amherst (Mass.)
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -