Lives like loaded guns
Subtitle: Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds
By: Lyndall Gordon
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9780670021932
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-470) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: A poet next door; title: 'A still; title: volcano; title: life.' The first family; title: A scientific education; title: Sister; title: 'Wife without the sign'; title: 'Snarl in the brain'; title: Telling; title: Romancing Judge Lord; title: Split in the family; title: Mabel's reign. Emily's stand; title: Lady Macbeth of Amherst; title: Mabel in Excelsis; title: The war between the houses. Lavinia's stand; title: The trial; title: Defeats of the first generation; title: Two daughters; title: The battle of the daughters; title: Posthumous campaigns; title: Outliving the legend.