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Lives like loaded guns : Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds
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Lives like loaded guns : Emily Dickinson and her family's feuds

Author: Lyndall Gordon
Publisher: New York : Viking, ©2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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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.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Emily Dickinson; Emily Dickinson
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lyndall Gordon
ISBN: 9780670021932 0670021938
OCLC Number: 463307679
Description: xvii, 491 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., geneal. table, map, ports. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Lyndall Gordon.
Local System Bib Number:
ocn463307679

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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.
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