The Dickinsons of Amherst
By: photographs by Jerome Liebling ; essays by Christopher Benfey, Polly Longsworth, and Barton Levi St. Armand.
Contributors: Benfey, Christopher E. G., 1954-; Longsworth, Polly.; St. Armand, Barton Levi.
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Hanover, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Amherst -- Pictorial works.; Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Amherst.; Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Family -- Pictorial works.; Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Family.; Dickinson family -- Pictorial works.; Dickinson family.; Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography.; Amherst (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.; Amherst (Mass.) -- Pictorial works.; Amherst (Mass.) -- Biography.
Genres: Pictorial works.; Biography.
Description: "Three preeminent scholars of Dickinson's life and work have contributed essays that explore the history and legacy of the Homestead and the Evergreens. Polly Longsworth, who wrote the definitive account of Austin's affair with Mabel Loomis Todd, reveals some results of her recent researches - including a new recognition that Dickinson's anxiety problems were a real and integral condition of her existence. Barton Levi St.

Armand shares the previously untold inside stories of Mary Hampson, the last resident of the Evergreens, and of the lives connected with the house over the last century. Christopher Benfey offers an insightful appreciation of Liebling's photographs and the light they shed on Dickinson and her work." "The heart of this book is the one hundred-plus photographs through which Jerome Liebling expands our understanding of Emily Dickinson's world and life."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction:; title: A Lost World Brought to Light I; title: by Christopher Benfey; title: The "Latitude of Home":; title: Life in the Homestead and the Evergreens 15; title: by Polly Longsworth; title: Keeper of the Keys:; title: Mary Hampson, the Evergreens, and the Art Within 107; title: by Barton Levi St. Armand; title: "Best Grief Is Tongueless":; title: Jerome Liebling's Spirit Photographs I69; title: by Christopher Benfey.