Lives Like Loaded Guns Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds

Name: Lives Like Loaded Guns Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
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ISBN: 9780143119142

ISBN-10: 0143119141

ISBN-13: 9780143119142

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Authors: Lyndall Gordon

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" Lives Like Loaded Guns...reads like a fabulous detective story...[Gordon] takes us into undiscovered territory." -- The Washington Post In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother, Austin, began an adulterous love affair with the accomplished and ravishing Mabel Todd, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. Award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon tells the story of the feud that erupted-and that still continues today. Making unprecedented use of letters, diaries, and legal documents, Gordon proposes a groundbreaking new solution to the secret behind the poet's insistent seclusion, presenting a woman beyond her time who found love,…

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List price: $20.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/31/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.44" wide x 8.43" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Lyndall Gordon is the prize-winning author of, most recently, "T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life" & "A Private Life of Henry James".




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


Sources


Notes


Acknowledgements


Index


Index of First Lines