A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Meade /
Benfey, Christopher E. G.
New York ; London : Penguin Press,
2008.
A tea rose -- The prodigal -- Beecher's pockets -- Tristes tropiques -- At the hotel byron -- The prisoner of Chillon -- Birds of passage -- Covert flowers, hidden nests -- Transits of venus -- Foggy bottom -- A route of evanescence -- Florida. - Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904
Women and literature
Literature and society
Literature and history