000 01902cam a2200373 a 4500
001 2009046311
003 DLC
005 20190729103913.0
008 091102s2010 nyuabcj b 001 0deng
010 _a 2009046311
020 _a9780670021932
020 _a0670021938
035 _a(OCoLC)ocn463307679
040 _aDLC
_cDLC
_dYDXCP
_dUPZ
_dC#P
_dABG
_dBWX
_dMOF
_dCDX
_dVP@
_dBKX
_dDLC
043 _an-us-ma
049 _aEY8Z
050 0 0 _aPS1541.Z5
_bG66 2010
082 0 0 _a811/.4
_222
100 1 _aGordon, Lyndall.
245 1 0 _aLives like loaded guns :
_bEmily Dickinson and her family's feuds /
_cLyndall Gordon.
250 _a1st American ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bViking,
_c2010.
300 _axvii, 491 p., [16] p. of plates :
_bill., geneal. table, map, ports. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [407]-470) and indexes.
520 _aLyndall 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.
505 0 _aA 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.
600 1 0 _aDickinson, Emily,
_d1830-1886
_xFamily.
650 0 _aPoets, American
_y19th century
_xFamily relationships.
651 0 _aAmherst (Mass.)
_xIntellectual life
_y19th century.
948 _au245383
949 _aPS1541.Z5 G66 2010
_wLC
_c1
_hEY8Z
_i33039001082469
596 _a1
903 _a16503
999 _c16503
_d16503