Lives like loaded guns
Subtitle: Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds
By: Lyndall Gordon.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780670021932
Subjects: Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1886 -- Family; Poets, American -- 19th century -- Family relationships; Amherst (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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: Emily's stand; title: Lady Macbeth of Amherst; title: Mabel in excelsis; title: The war between the houses; title: Lavinia's stand; title: The trial; title: Defeats of the first generation; title: Two daughters; title: The battle of the daughters; title: Posthumous campaigns.