Bibliograph

Lives like loaded guns, Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds, Lyndall Gordon

Type

Label

Lives like loaded guns, Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds, Lyndall Gordon

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-470) and indexes

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

portraitsgenealogical tablesillustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lives like loaded guns

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

463307679

Responsibility statement

Lyndall Gordon

Sub title

Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

A 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

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